| CHAPTER I. | PAGE |
| My Old Library and its Contents—The Three Classes of Traditions—Legend of Sludach—Singular Test of Character—The Writer’s Pledge, | [1] |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Alypos—Etymological Legends—Epic Poetry of the Middle Ages—Astorimon—The Spectre Ships—Olaus Rudbeck, | [10] |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| The Bay of Cromarty—The Old Coast Line—The Old Town—The Storms of the Five Winters—Donald Miller’s Wars with the Sea, | [25] |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Macbeth—Our earlier Data—The Fions of Knock-Ferril—The King’s Sons—The Obelisks of Easter Ross—Dunskaith—The Urquharts of Cromarty—Wallace—The Foray of the Clans—Paterhemon, | [36] |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Remains of the Old Mythology—The Devotional Sentiment—Interesting Usages—Rites of the Scottish Halloween—The Charm of the Egg—The Twelfth Rig—Macculloch’s Courtship—The Extinct Spectres—Legend of Morial’s Den—The Guardian Cock, | [55] |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| A Scottish Town of the 17th Century—The Old Castle of the Urquharts—Hereditary Sheriffship, | [75] |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| Sir Thomas Urquhart, | [86] |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| The Reformation—Outbreaking at Rosemarkie—Sir John Urquhart of Craigfintrie—The Ousted Ministers—Mr. Fraser of Brea—Luggie, | [105] |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| The Chaplain’s Lair, | [124] |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| The Curates—Donald Roy of Nigg—The Breaking of the Burgh—George Earl of Cromartie—The Union, | [143] |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| Important Events which affect the Religious Character—Kenneth Ore—Thomas Hogg and the Man-horse—The Watchman of Cullicuden—The Lady of Ardvrock—The Lady of Balconie, | [157] |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| The Fisherman’s Widow, | [177] |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| The Story of John Feddes—Andrew Lindsay, | [194] |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| The Chapel of St. Regulus—Macleod the Smuggler—The Story of Sandy Wood, | [209] |
| CHAPTER XV. | |
| The Poor Lost Lad—A Ballad in Prose—Morrison the Painter, | [221] |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |
| The Economy of Accident—The Black Years—Progress of the Pestilence—The Quarantine—The Cholera, | [235] |
| CHAPTER XVII. | |
| Martinmas Market—The Herring Drove—The Whale-Fishers—The Flight of the Drove—Urquhart of Greenhill—Poem—William Forsyth—The Caithness Man’s Leap, | [250] |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | |
| Sandy Wright and the Puir Orphan, | [267] |
| CHAPTER XIX. | |
| Tarbat Ness—Stine Bheag o’ Tarbat, | [279] |
| CHAPTER XX. | |
| The Mermaid—The Story of John Reid—Maculloch the Corn-Agent—The Washing of the Mermaid, | [290] |
| CHAPTER XXI. | |
| The Bad Year—Sandison’s Spulzie—The Meal Mob, | [305] |
| CHAPTER XXII. | |
| The Forty-Five—Nanny Miller’s Onslaught—The Retreat—The Battle of Culloden—Old John Dunbar—Jacobite Psalm, | [319] |
| CHAPTER XXIII. | |
| The Dropping Cave—The Legend of Willie Millar—A Boy Adventurer—Fiddler’s Well, | [329] |
| CHAPTER XXIV. | |
| Wars of the Town’s-people—Maculloch the Lawyer—The Law-Plea—Roderick and the Captain—Mr. Henderson, | [342] |
| CHAPTER XXV. | |
| 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] |