CONTENTS.

ADVENTUREPAGE
I.The outcasting of Cleg Kelly[1]
II.The burning of the Whinny Knowes[5]
III.Why Cleg Kelly hated his father[13]
IV.How Isbel Kelly heard sweet music[21]
V.The brigands of the city[29]
VI.Cleg turns burglar[38]
VII.The adventure of the cockroaches[45]
VIII.The flight of Sheemus[51]
IX.The warming of the Drabble[57]
X.The squaring of the police[62]
XI.The boy in the wooden hut[68]
XII.Vara Kavannah of the Tinklers' Lands[72]
XIII.Cleg's second burglary[80]
XIV.Cleg turns diplomatist[86]
XV.The fire in Callendar's yard[94]
XVI.In the key of boy natural[101]
XVII.The Knuckle Dusters[110]
XVIII.Big Smith subdues the Knuckle Dusters[116]
XIX.The pilgrims of the penny gaff[123]
XX.The difficulties of Adonis betwixt two Venuses[129]
XXI.An idyll of Bogie roll[139]
XXII.The seduction of a bailie[143]
XXIII.The amorous adventures of a night-shift man[147]
XXIV.The crook in the lot of Cleaver's boy[153]
XXV.A comely Providence in a new frock[157]
XXVI.R. S. V. P.[163]
XXVII.Janet of Inverness tastes the herb bitter-sweet[167]
XXVIII.The engine-driver with the beard[172]
XXIX.Muckle Alick's Bannockburn[177]
XXX.How Geordie Grierson's engine broke its buffer[181]
XXXI.The "awfu' woman"[184]
XXXII.Maid Greatheart and her pilgrims[190]
XXXIII.The babes in the haystack[194]
XXXIV.That of Mary Bell, byre lass[198]
XXXV.The knight in the soft hat[202]
XXXVI.The madness of Hugh Boy[207]
XXXVII.Boy Hugh finds out the nature of a kiss[212]
XXXVIII.Of Miss Briggs and her ten cats[216]
XXXIX.The adventure of Snap's porridge[222]
XL.A new kind of hero[227]
XLI."Twa laddies—and a lassie"[233]
XLII.Muckle Alick considers[243]
XLIII.Town knight and country knight[247]
XLIV.Cleg relapses into paganism[253]
XLV.The cabin on the summit[262]
XLVI.A child of the devil[268]
XLVII.The sleep of James Cannon, signalman[275]
XLVIII.Muckle Alick sees the distant signal stand at Clear[284]
XLIX.Cleg collects tickets[291]
L.General Theophilus Ruff[300]
LI.The General's establishment[309]
LII.The three coffins in the strong-room[318]
LIII.A stormy morning at Loch Spellanderie[326]
LIV.Kit Kennedy's farewell[335]
LV.A young man's fancy[341]
LVI.The voices in the marsh[349]
LVII.Fighting the beasts[359]
LVIII.Within the red door[367]
LIX.The beech hedge[377]
LX.Cleg's treasure-trove comes to him[383]