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The muckin' o' Geordie's byre.--The stool of repentance.--As I came ower the Muir o' Ord.--The bold Princess Royal.--The shepherd lad o' Rhynie.--My last farewell to Stirling.--Whistle ower the lave o ...

The tea was ready late one fall Sunday morning in the kitchen of this castellated mansion 50 miles west of Glasgow that looks out over the blustery Argyllshire coast. The night before, there had been ...

IN the long-expected work of which the first part lies before us, Professor Child undertakes to give every existing version of every popular English ballad, together with its comparative history, ...