The Scottish Hunters of Hudson's Bay, (Hugh Miller)
The Professor's Tales, (Professor Thomas Gillespie)
The Wedding
Mike Maxwell and the Gretna Green Lovers, (Alexander Leighton)
Reuben Purves; or, the Speculator, (John Mackay Wilson)
The Sea-Storm, (Oliver Richardson)
The Heir of Inshannock, (James Maidment)
The Mosstrooper, (Alexander Campbell)
The Forger, (Alexander Campbell)
The Surgeon's Tales, (Alexander Leighton)
The Three Letters
The Glass Back
We'll Have Another, (John Mackay Wilson)
The Scottish Veteran, (John Howell)
The White Woman of Tarras, (Patrick Maxwell)
The gloom of a boisterous winter evening was settling over one of thewild, inhospitable tracts which lie to the north of the St Lawrence. Theearth, far as the eye could reach, was covered, to the depth of manyfeet, by a continuous sheet of frozen snow; over which the bellyingclouds, heavily charged with the materials of a fresh storm, hung interrible array, fold beyond fold, as they descended on every side tomingle with the distant horizon. On the one hand, a frozen lake, deeplyburied, like all the rest of the landscape, stretched its flat, unvariedsurface for leagues along the waste; on the other, a winding shore,covered with stunted trees and bushes, alternately advanced into thelevel, in the form of low, long promontories, or retired into littlehollow bays, edged with rock, and overhung by thickets of pine. All wassublimely wild and desolate. The piercing north wind went whistling insudden gusts along the frozen surface of the lake, dashing against eachother the stiff, brittle branches of the underwood, and shaking offtheir icicles, or whirling the lighter snow into huge columns, that everand anon went stalking along the waste like giants, and seeme