STORIES BY ENGLISH AUTHORS 

       SCOTLAND     

   

   

       Contents     

  THE COURTING OF T’NOWHEAD’S BELL, By J. M. Barrie  

  “THE HEATHER LINTIE”, By S. R. Crockett              

  A DOCTOR OF THE OLD SCHOOL, By Ian Maclaren  

  WANDERING WILLIE’S TALE, By Sir Walter Scott  

  THE GLENMUTCHKIN RAILWAY, By Professor Aytoun  

  THRAWN JANET, By Robert Louis Stevenson              

   

    

       THE COURTING OF T’NOWHEAD’S BELL, By J. M. Barrie     

       For two years it had been notorious in the square that Sam’l Dickie was thinking of courting T’nowhead’s Bell, and that if Little Sanders Elshioner (which is the Thrums pronunciation of Alexander Alexander) went in for her, he might prove a formidable rival. Sam’l was a weaver in the tenements, and Sanders a coal-carter, whose trade-mark was a bell on his horse’s neck that told when coal was coming. Being something of a public man, Sanders had not, perhaps, so high a social position as Sam’l, but he had succeeded his father on the coal-cart, while the weaver had already tried several trades. It had always been against Sam’l, too, that once when the kirk was vacant he had advised the selection of the third minister who preached for it on the ground that it became expensive to pay a large number of candidates. The scandal of the thing was hushed up, out of respect for his father, who was a God-fearing man, but Sam’l was known by it in Lang Tammas’s circle. The coal-carter was called 

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