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قراءة كتاب Highways and Byways in The Border Illustrated
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HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN THE BORDER
By Andrew Lang and John Lang
With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson
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CONTENTS
HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN THE BORDER
CHAPTER I BERWICK, TWEED, WHITADDER
CHAPTER II BLACKADDER, NORHAM, FLORDEN, COLDSTREAM, WARR, AND THE EDEN
CHAPTER III KELSO, ROXBURGH, TEVIOT, KALE, AND OXNAM
CHAPTER IV JEDBURGH, AND THE JED
CHAPTER V JED (continued), FERNIHIRST, RAID OK THE REDESWIRE, OTTERBURNE
CHAPTER VI ALE, RULE WATER, TEVIOT, HAWICK
CHAPTER VII TWEED, ST. BOSWELLS, DRYBURGH, NEWSTEAD, AND THE LEADER
CHAPTER VIII ST. BOSWELLS GREEN, MELROSE, DARNICK, ABBOTSFORD, AND THE ELLWAND
CHAPTER IX GALASHIELS AND THE GALA, LINDFAN
CHAPTER XI THE ETTRICK, CARTERHAUGH, OAKWOOD, TUSHIELAW, THIRLESTANE, ETTRICK KIRK
CHAPTER XIII UPPER TWEED, YAIR, FAIRNILEE, ASHIESTEEL, EUBANK, INNERLEITHEN, TRAQUAIR
CHAPTER XIV PEEBLES, NEIDPATH, MANOR, LYNE, DRUMMELZIER, DAWYCK
CHAPTER XV BROUGHTON, TWEEDSMUIR, TALLA, GAMESHOPE, TWEED'S WELL
CHAPTER XVI LIDDESDALE, HERMITAGE, CASTLETON
CHAPTER XVII KERSHOPEFOOT, CARLISLE CASTLE, SOLWAY MOSS
CHAPTER XVIII BEWCASTLE, LIDDEL MOAT, NETHERBY, KIRK ANDREWS, GILNOCKIE, LANGHOLM
PREFACE
At the time of his death, my brother had proceeded but a little way in this task which he and I began together, and I must frankly own my inability to cope with it on the lines which he would doubtless have followed. It is probable, for example, that his unrivalled knowledge of "the memories, legends, ballads, and nature of the Border" would have led him to show various important events in a light different from that in which my less intimate acquaintance with the past has enabled me to speak of them; whilst, as regards the Ballad literature of the Border, I cannot pretend to that expert knowledge which he possessed, I do not think, therefore, it is fitting that I should attempt to carry out his intention to deal more fully with those of the Ballads which are most closely connected with places treated of in this volume.
To him, more perhaps than to any other Borderer, every burn and stream, every glen and hill of that pleasant land was
". . . lull ot ballad notes,
Borne out of long ago."
It is many a year since he wrote those verses wherein he spoke of
" Old songs that sung themselves to me,
Sweet through a boy's day-dream."
But it was not alone in a boy's day-dream that they sounded. To the end, they echoed and re-echoed in his heart, and no voice ever spoke to him so eloquently as that of Tweed,—by whose banks, indeed, in a spot greatly loved, had it been permitted he would fain have slept his long sleep.
JOHN LANG.
The artist wishes to call attention to the fact that his drawings were made during the long drought of 1911, when all the rivers were exceptionally low.