Produced by David Clarke, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net WILSON'S TALES OF THE BORDERS AND OF SCOTLAND. HISTORICAL, TRADITIONARY, & IMAGINATIVE. WITH A GLOSSARY. REVISED BY ALEXANDER LEIGHTON ONE OF THE ORIGINAL EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS. VOL. VII. LONDON: WALTER SCOTT, 14 PATERNOSTER SQUARE AND NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE. 1885. CONTENTS. JUDITH THE EGYPTIAN; OR, THE FATE OF THE HEIR OF RICCON, _(JOHN MACKAY WILSON)_ THE DROICH, _(ALEXANDER LEIGHTON)_ THE LYKEWAKE, _(HUGH MILLER)_ THE PENNY WEDDING, _(ALEXANDER CAMPBELL)_ THE AMATEUR LAWYERS, _(ALEXANDER LEIGHTON)_ THE PROFESSOR'S TALES, _(PROFESSOR THOMAS GILLESPIE)_ FAMILY INCIDENTS HOME AND THE GIPSY MAID THE RETURN THE POOR SCHOLAR, _(JOHN MACKAY WILSON)_ THE LAIRD OF DARNICK TOWER, _(J. H. )_ THE BROKEN HEART. A TALE OF THE REBELLION, _(JOHN MACKAY WILSON)_ THE CATERAN OF LOCHLOY, _(JAMES MAIDMENT)_ SERJEANT'S TALES, _(JOHN HOWELL)_ JOHN SQUARE'S VOYAGE TO INDIA WILSON'S TALES OF THE BORDERS, AND OF SCOTLAND. JUDITH THE EGYPTIAN; OR, THE FATE OF THE HEIR OF RICCON. "The black-eyed Judith, fair and tall, Attracted the heir of Riccon Hall. * * * * * For years and years was Judith known, Queen of a wild world all her own; By Wooler Haugh, by silver Till, By Coldstream Bridge, and Flodden Hill: Until, at length, one morn, when sleet Hung frozen round the traveller's feet, By a grey ruin on Tweedside, The creature laid her down and died."--_Border Ballad._