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. XIX. LONDON: WALTER SCOTT, 14 PATERNOSTER SQUARE, AND NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE. 1884. CONTENTS. Page THE DOMESTIC GRIEFS OF GUSTAVUS M’IVER, (_Alexander Leighton_), 1 THE FIRST AND SECOND MARRIAGE, (_John Mackay Wilson_), 35 THE DISSOLVED PLEDGE, (_Oliver Richardson_), 67 THE HAWICK SPATE, (_Alexander Campbell_), 99 THE AVENGER; OR, THE LEGEND OF MARY LEE, (_Alexander Leighton_), 129 THE LORD OF HERMITAGE, (_Alexander Campbell_), 155 GLEANINGS OF THE COVENANT, (_Professor Thomas Gillespie_)— XVIII. KINALDY, 165 XIX. THE TRIALS OF THE REV. SAMUEL AUSTIN, 174 THE CURSE OF SCOTLAND, (_Alexander Campbell_), 196 LEAVES FROM THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON, (_John M. Wilson_), 199 THE SPORTSMAN OF OUTFIELDHAUGH, (_Alexander Leighton_), 232 THE SEA FIGHT, (_Anon._), 265 WILSON’S TALES OF THE BORDERS, AND OF SCOTLAND. THE DOMESTIC GRIEFS OF GUSTAVUS M’IVER. CHAPTER I. GUSTAVUS’S ANTECEDENTS.