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Title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XXIII.

Author: Various

Release Date: February 11, 2004 [EBook #11032]

Language: English

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Wilson's

TALES OF THE BORDERS

AND OF SCOTLAND.

HISTORICAL, TRADITIONARY, & IMAGINATIVE.

REVISED BY
ALEXANDER LEIGHTON,
_One of the Original Editors and Contributors_.

VOL. XXIII.

CONTENTS.

THE LAWYER'S TALES (_Alexander Leighton_)--LORD KAMES'S PUZZLE.

THE ORPHAN (_John Mackay Wilson_).

THE BURGHER'S TALES (_Alexander Leighton_)--THE
BROWNIE OF THE WEST BOW.

GLEANINGS OF THE COVENANT (_Professor Thomas
Gillespie_)--THE LAST SCRAP.

THE STORY OF MARY BROWN (_Alexander Leighton_).

TIBBY FOWLER (_John Mackay Wilson_).

THE CRADLE OF LOGIE (_Alexander Leighton_).

THE DEATH OF THE CHEVALIER DE LA BEAUTE (_John Mackay Wilson_).

THE STORY OF THE PELICAN (_Alexander Leighton_).

THE WIDOW'S AE SON (_John Mackay Wilson_).

THE LAWYER'S TALES (_Alexander Leighton_)--THE
STORY OF MYSIE CRAIG.

THE TWIN BROTHERS (_John Mackay Wilson_).

THE GIRL FORGER (_Alexander Leighton_).

THE TWO RED SLIPPERS (_Alexander Leighton_).

THE FAITHFUL WIFE (_Alexander Leighton_).

WILSON'S
TALES OF THE BORDERS,
AND OF SCOTLAND.

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THE LAWYER'S TALES.

LORD KAMES'S PUZZLE.

On looking over some Session papers which had belonged to Lord Kames,
with the object, I confess, of getting hold of some facts--those
entities called by Quintilian the bones of truth, the more by token, I
fancy, that they so often stick in the throat--which might contribute to
my legends, I came to some sheets whereon his lordship had written some
hasty remarks, to the effect that the case Napier _versus_ Napier was
the most curious puzzle that ever he had witnessed since he had taken
his seat on the bench. Th