BOB, SON OF BATTLE

By Alfred Ollivant

CONTENTS

PART I.   THE COMING OF THE TAILLESS TYKE

Chapter I.   THE GRAY DOG

Chapter II.   A SON OF HAGAR

Chapter III.   RED WULL

Chapter IV.   FIRST BLOOD

PART II.   THE LITTLE MAN

Chapter V.   A MAN'S SON

Chapter VI.   A LICKING OR A LIE

Chapter VII.   THE WHITE WINTER

Chapter VIII.   M'ADAM AND HIS COAT

PART III.   THE SHEPHERDS' TROPHY

Chapter IX.   RIVALS

Chapter X.   RED WULL WINS

Chapter XI.   OOR BOB

Chapter XII.   HOW RED WULL HELD THE BRIDGE

Chapter XIII.   THE FACE IN THE FRAME

PART IV.   THE BLACK KILLER

Chapter XIV.   A MAD MAN

Chapter XV.   DEATH ON THE MARCHES

Chapter XVI.   THE BLACK KILLER

Chapter XVII.   A MAD DOG

Chapter XVIII.   HOW THE KILLER WAS SINGED

Chapter XIX.   LAD AND LASS

Chapter XX.   THE SNAPPING OF THE STRING

Chapter XXI.   HORROR OF DARKNESS

PART V.   OWD BOB O' KENMUIR

Chapter XXII.   A MAN AND A MAID

Chapter XXIII.   TH' OWD UN

Chapter XXIV.   A SHOT IN THE NIGHT

Chapter XXV.   THE SHEPHERDS' TROPHY

PART VI.   THE BLACK KILLER

Chapter XXVI.   RED-HANDED

Chapter XXVII.   FOR THE DEFENCE

Chapter XXVIII.     THE DEVIL'S BOWL

Chapter XXIX.   THE DEVIL'S BOWL

Chapter XXX.   THE TAILLESS TYKE AT BAY

POSTSCRIPT.     

PART I THE COMING OF THE TAILLESS TYKE

Chapter I. THE GRAY DOG

THE sun stared brazenly down on a gray farmhouse lying, long and low in the shadow of the Muir Pike; on the ruins of peel-tower and barmkyn, relics of the time of raids, it looked; on ranges of whitewashed outbuildings; on a goodly array of dark-thatched ricks.

In the stack-yard, behind the lengthy range of stables, two men were thatching. One lay sprawling on the