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Border Ghost Stories, by Howard Pease
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Title: Border Ghost Stories
Author: Howard Pease
Release Date: December 8, 2008 [EBook #27449]
Language: English
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BORDER GHOST STORIES
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Tales of Northumbria Magnus Sinclair The Lord Wardens of the Marches, etc.
BORDER GHOST STORIES
BY
HOWARD PEASE
AUTHOR OF 'TALES OF NORTHUMBRIA,' 'MAGNUS SINCLAIR' 'THE LORD WARDENS OF THE MARCHES OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND,' ETC.
ERSKINE MACDONALD LTD. LONDON, W.C. 1
First published 1919
TO
THE MEMORY OF
SIR WALTER SCOTT
THE TUTELARY GENIUS OF THE BORDERLAND
THESE TALES ARE INSCRIBED BY A
LATTER DAY BORDERER
PREFACE
Certain places, said Stevenson, cry out for a story, and Scott, in any new surroundings, straightway invented an appropriate tale, if there were not already a story or tradition in existence. One might even believe that the place