They went, and found him lying as stated, only that his eyes were shut, some of his attendant elves having closed them over night. His book was in his bosom, and his rod in his hand, from either of which no force of man could sever them, although when they lifted the body and these together, there was no difference in weight from the body of another man. The King then caused these dangerous relics to be deposited along with the body in an iron chest, which they buried in a vaulted aisle of the abbey of Melrose; and the castle of Aikwood has never more been inhabited by mortal man. THE END. * * * * * Transcriber's Notes This text is a reproduction of the 1822 edition. It includes many dialect and archaic words and spellings, as well as many typographical errors which have not been changed. Some characters were not printed clearly: p. 79 The letter "i" in "you would deify" was not printed and is conjectural p. 131 the line ending "The wines and liquor" does not meet the margin; "liquor" may be plural. p. 151 the line ending "of beings so blind" does not meet the margin, and may end in a comma p. 274 the colon in "by the Douglas:" is unclear and may be a semi-colon p. 307 the semi-colon in "the attempt prematurely;" is unclear and may be a comma Chapters are inconsistently headed "CHAPTER" or "CHAP." The text includes the following inconsistent spellings: Father Lawrence and father Lawrence galloped and gallopped Castle-Wearie and Castle-Weary Corby and Corbie chace and chase The text includes many examples of inconsistent hyphenation. The following are inconsistently hyphenated or printed as two words: yester eve and yester-eve all four and all-four arch fiend and arch-fiend back friends and back-friends bowling green and bowling-green coulter nose and coulter-nose deep wooded and deep-wooded divining rod and divining-rod high born and high-born high spirited and high-spirited hoar frost and hoar-frost iron door and iron-door The following are inconsistently hyphenated or printed as one word: daylight and day-light Castlewearie and Castle-Wearie drawbridge and draw-bridge auldfarrant and auld-farrant bareheaded and bare-headed eyebrows and eye-brows outdone and out-done staircase and stair-case The following are inconsistently printed as one or two words: fairy land and fairyland Gude faith and Gudefaith mean time and meantime The text contains the following apparent errors: p. 10 missing apostrophe ("its only the devil") p. 17 missing quotation mark ("What do you think") p. 25 missing quotation mark ("is the better. The imps") p. 30 extra quotation mark ("behind the friar."") p. 46 missing quotation mark ("preserve their worshippers.") p. 47 missing quotation mark ("and who must yield.") p. 60 missing quotation mark ("all unsafe with such.") p. 62 question mark instead of full stop ("off thy frame?") p. 68 missing quotation mark ("those we love.")