Saw ye Johnie coming? quo’ she,
Saw ye Johnie coming?
Wi’ his blue bonnet on his head,
And his doggie running?

Old Ballad.

XXVIII. Serious Musings,

My eyes are dim with childish tears,
My heart is idly stirr’d,
For the same sound is in mine ears,
Which in those days I heard.
Thus fares it still in our decay;
And yet the wiser mind
Mourns less for what age takes away,
Than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth.

XXIX. Conclusion,

He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man, and bird, and beast—
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.

Coleridge.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

from oil paintings by
CHARLES MARTIN HARDIE, R.S.A.

One of the Duke’s Huntsmen Frontispiece
Mansie’s Shop Door Title-page
Mansie’s Wedding: The Dance gaed through the Lighted Hall Page 8
Mansie and Nancy 24
The Minister’s Lassie Jess: A Blue-eyed Lassie of a Serving Maid 40
Mansie’s Father 56
Rev. Mr Wiggie 72
The First Day I got my Regimentals on 104
Thomas Burlings: Elder 136
Mungo Glen 184
James Batter, Mostly Blinded in both his Eyes, looking for our Name in the Book of Martyrs 216
Country Lassies bleaching their Snow-white Linen 248
The Waiting Girl, Jeanie Amos 264
Peter Farrel 280
An Old Dalkeith Body 312
The Lazy Corner, Dalkeith 344

* * * * *

The sun rises bright in France,
And fair sets he;
But he has tint the blithe blink he had
In my ain countree.

Allan Cunningham.