Produced by David Clarke, Woodie4 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. XI. LONDON: WALTER SCOTT, 14 PATERNOSTER SQUARE, AND NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE. 1884. CONTENTS. Page THE DOMINIE'S CLASS (_John Mackay Wilson_) 1 THE CONTRAST OF WIVES (_Alexander Leighton_) 33 THE PROFESSOR'S TALES (_Professor Thomas Gillespie_) THE SOCIAL MAN 65 THE TWO COMRADES (_Alexander Campbell_) 90 THE SURTOUT (_Alexander Campbell_) 106 THE SURGEON'S TALES THE SUICIDE (_Alexander Leighton_) 121 THE GHOST OF HOWDYCRAIGS (_Alexander Bethune_) 153 THE GHOST OF GAIRYBURN (_Alexander Bethune_) 185 THE SMUGGLER (_John Mackay Wilson_) 217 THE SCHOOLFELLOWS (_Oliver Richardson_) 250 THE RED HALL; OR, BERWICK IN 1296 (_John Mackay Wilson_) 281 WILSON'S TALES OF THE BORDERS, AND OF SCOTLAND. THE DOMINIE'S CLASS.[A] "Their ends as various as the roads they take In journeying through life."