[CHAPTER I. MY GOSSIP, MAISIE MAY]
[CHAPTER II. GAY GARLAND CARRIES DOUBLE]
[CHAPTER III. GAY GARLAND COMES HOME SADDLE EMPTY]
[CHAPTER IV. SANDY GORDON COMES OVER THE HILL ALL ALONE]
[CHAPTER V. THE CLASH OF WORDS]
[CHAPTER VI. THE CLASH OF SWORDS]
[CHAPTER VII. THE FIELD OF BOTHWELL BRIG]
[CHAPTER VIII. THE CURATE OF DALRY]
[CHAPTER IX. THROUGH DEATH'S DARK VALE]
[CHAPTER X. THE GRAVE IN THE WILDERNESS]
[CHAPTER XI. THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS]
[CHAPTER XII. WE RIDE TO EDINBURGH]
[CHAPTER XIII. WULLCAT WAT DARES HEAVEN AND HELL]
[CHAPTER XIV. THE THING THAT FELL FROM TRAITOR'S GATE]
[CHAPTER XV. THE BICKER IN THE SNOW]
[CHAPTER XVI. THE GREY MOWDIEWORT]
[CHAPTER XVII. OVER THE MUIR AMANG THE HEATHER]
[CHAPTER XVIII. AULD ANTON OF THE DUCHRAE]
[CHAPTER XIX. THE SWEET SINGERS OF THE DEER-SLUNK]
[CHAPTER XX. THE HOME OF MY LOVE]
[CHAPTER XXI. THE GREAT CONVENTICLE BY THE DEE WATER]
[CHAPTER XXII. PEDEN THE PROPHET]
[CHAPTER XXIII. BIRSAY THE COBBLER]
[CHAPTER XXIV. THE SANQUHAR DECLARATION]
[CHAPTER XXV. THE LAST CHARGE AT AYRSMOSS]
[CHAPTER XXVI. HIDING WITH THE HEATHER-CAT]
[CHAPTER XXVII. THE WATER OF THE WELL OF BETHLEHEM]
[CHAPTER XXVIII. THE WELL-HOUSE OF EARLSTOUN]
[CHAPTER XXIX. CUPBOARD LOVE]
[CHAPTER XXX. THE BULL OF EARLSTOUN'S HOMECOMING]
[CHAPTER XXXI. JEAN'S WA'S]
[CHAPTER XXXII. PLAIN WORDS UPON MEN]
[CHAPTER XXXIII. THE GARDENER OF BALMAGHIE]
[CHAPTER XXXIV. THE TESTING OF THE TYKE]
[CHAPTER XXXV. KATE OF THE DARK BROWS]
[CHAPTER XXXVI. THE BLACK HORSE COMES TO BALMAGHIE]
[CHAPTER XXXVII. A CAVALIER'S WOOING]
[CHAPTER XXXVIII. IN COVE MACATERICK]
[CHAPTER XXXIX. THE BOWER OF THE STAR]
[CHAPTER XL. MARDROCHAT THE SPY]
[CHAPTER XLI. THE HOUSE OF THE BLACK CATS]
[CHAPTER XLII. THE NICK O' THE DEID WIFE]
[CHAPTER XLIII. THE VENGEANCE OF "YON"]
[CHAPTER XLIV. A DESIRABLE GENERAL MEETING]
[CHAPTER XLV. THE OUTFACING OF CLAVERS]
[CHAPTER XLVI. THE FIGHT AT THE CALDONS]
[CHAPTER XLVII. THE GALLOWAY FLAIL]
[CHAPTER XLVIII. THE FIGHT IN THE GUT OF THE ENTERKIN]
[CHAPTER XLIX. THE DEATH OF MARDROCHAT]
[CHAPTER L. THE BREAKING OF THE THIEVES' HOLE]
[CHAPTER LI. THE SANDS OF WIGTOWN]
[CHAPTER LII. THE MADNESS OF THE BULL OF EARLSTOUN]
[CHAPTER LIII. UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH]
[CHAPTER LIV. ROBBERY ON THE KING'S HIGHWAY]
[CHAPTER LV. THE RED MAIDEN]
[CHAPTER LVI. THE MAID ON THE WHITE HORSE]
[FOLLOWETH THE AUTHOR'S CONCLUSION]
[BY S. R. CROCKETT]
THE MEN OF THE MOSS-HAGS.
PREFATORY NOTE.
I desire to express grateful thanks to my researchers, Mr. James Nicholson of Kirkcudbright, who examined on my behalf all the local records bearing upon the period and upon the persons treated of in this book; and to the Reverend John Anderson of the Edinburgh University Library, who brought to light from among the Earlstoun Papers and from the long-lost records of the United Societies, many of the materials which I have used in the writing of this story.
I owe also much gratitude to the Library Committee of the University of Edinburgh, for permission to use the letters which are printed in the text, and for their larger permission to publish at some future time, for purposes more strictly historical, a selection from both the sets of manuscripts named above.
Most of all, I am indebted to my friend, Mr. John McMillan of Glenhead in Galloway, who has not only given me in this, as in former works, the benefit of his unrivalled local knowledge, but has travelled with me many a weary foot over those moors and moss-hags, where the wanderers of another time had their abiding places. Let him accept this word of thanks. He is not likely to forget our stay together in the wilds of Cove Macaterick. Nor I our journey home.
S. R. CROCKETT.
Penicuik, Aug. 5, 1895.