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Stories of the Border Marches

by Lang Jeanie

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Author: Lang Jeanie

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...Here of old, when beacon-fires blazedon the hill-tops, "each with warlike tidings fraught, " flashing theirwarning of coming trouble from "the false Scottes, " the people of theseregions were wont to hurry for safety, breathlessly bearing with themwhatsoever valuables they prized and had time to save. Many a treasureis said to lie here, buried, and never again dug up, because those whoalone knew where to look had perished in defence of the Peel. Truly, ifthe troubled spirits of those slain ones yet wander, brooding overhidden chattels and lost penates, they are not greatly to be pitied, fora spot more beautiful, one less to be shunned if our spirits _must_wander, it would be hard to find in all Northumberland or in allEngland. Not distant would they be, too, from good company, for away tothe north across the Tyne, in a mighty cavern in the rock--below whatonce was the castle of Sewing Shields--does not local tradition tellthat Arthur and his knights lie asleep, waiting the inevitable...

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