THE BRAES O' YARROW
KEMP OWYNE
O'ER THE WATER TO CHARLIE
ADMIRAL HOSIER'S GHOST
JEMMY DAWSON
WILLIAM AND MARGARET
ELFINLAND WOOD
CASABIANCA
AULD ROBIN GRAY
GLOSSARY




INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR.



Recitation with dramatic energy by men whose business it was to travel
from one great house to another and delight the people by the way, was
usual among us from the first. The scop invented and the glee-man
recited heroic legends and other tales to our Anglo-Saxon forefathers.
These were followed by the minstrels and other tellers of tales
written for the people. They frequented fairs and merrymakings,
spreading the knowledge not only of tales in prose or ballad form, but
of appeals also to public sympathy from social reformers.

As late as the year 1822, Allan Cunningham, in publishing a collection
of "Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry," spoke
from his own recollection of itinerant story-tellers who were welcomed