The Churchyard Ghost--My Writing Room--The Broken Promise--The Polander--The One-eyed Stepmother--The Pedlar--The Green Lady--Munro the Post, 357 CHAPTER XXVI. The Literati of Cromarty--Johnie o’ the Shore--Meggie o’ the Shore--David Henderson--Macculloch of Dun-Loth, 377 CHAPTER XXVII. The Gudewife of Minitarf, 395 CHAPTER XXVIII. The Old School, and what it produced--Dr. Hossack--The hard Dominie--Mr. Russel the minister--The Cock-Fight--Maculloch the Mechanician, 408 CHAPTER XXIX. The Itinerant Sculptor--Kirk-Michael--The Apprentice’s Dream--The Wild Wife--Gordon of Newhall--Sir Robert Munro--Babble Hanah, 432 CHAPTER XXX. George Ross, the Scotch Agent, 449 CHAPTER XXXI. The Burn of Eathie--Donald Calder--The Story of Tom M’Kechan--Fause Jamie, 461 CHAPTER XXXII. Our Town Politics--The First Whig--The Revolution--The Democracy--The Procession--Hossack’s Pledge--The County Meeting--The French War--Whiggism of the People, 473 SCENES AND LEGENDS. THE TRADITIONAL HISTORY OF CROMARTY. CHAPTER I. “Tradition is a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled.”--JOHNSON. Extremes may meet in the intellectual as certainly as in the moral world. I find, in tracing to its first beginnings the slowly accumulated magazine of facts and inferences which forms the stock in trade on which my mind carries on its work of speculation and exchange, that my greatest benefactors have been the philosophic Bacon and an ignorant old woman, who, of all the books ever written, was acquainted with only the Bible. [Sidenote: MY OLD LIBRARY AND ITS CONTENTS.]