Contents

    Dedication

    Introduction

    Introductory

I. Life and Death of Mrs Weir

II. Father and Son

III. In the Matter of the Hanging of Duncan Jopp

IV. Opinions of the Bench

V. Winter on the Moors:

     1. At Hermiston

     2. Kirstie

     3. A Border Family

VI. A Leaf from Christina’s Psalm-Book

VII. Enter Mephistopheles

VIII. A Nocturnal Visit

IX. At the Weaver’s Stone

        Glossary