given in Percy's *Reliques of Ancient Poetry* and in Child's
*English and Scottish Ballads,* viii. 98.
(2) William R. Dempster, a Scottish vocalist who had
recently sung in America, and whose music to Burns's song "A
man 's a man for a' that" was very popular.
(3) The whole of this song may be found in Herd's *Ancient
and Modern Scottish Songs,* ii. 172.

That very night the rascal decamped, taking with him the
doctor's horse, and was never after heard of.

Often, in the gray of the morning, we used to see one or more
"gaberlunzie men," pack on shoulder and staff in hand,
emerging from the barn or other outbuildings where they had
passed the night. I was once sent to the barn to fodder the
cattle late in the evening, and, climbing into the mow to pitch
down hay for that purpose, I was startled by the sudden
apparition of a man rising up before me, just discernible in the
dim moonlight streaming through the seams of the boards. I
made a rapid retreat down the ladder; and was only reassured
by hearing the object of my terror calling after me, and
recognizing his voice as that of a harmless old pilgrim whom I
had known before. Our farmhouse was situated in a lonely
valley, half surrounded with woods, with no neighbors in sight.
One dark, cloudy night, when our parents chanced to be absent,
we were sitting with our aged grandmother in the fading light
of the kitchen fire, working ourselves into a very satisfactory
state of excitement and terror by recounting to each other all the
dismal stories we could remember of ghosts, witches, haunted
houses, and robbers, when we were suddenly startled by a loud