Footnotes

[5] Boggy.

[15] Clock

[16] Enjoy.

[140] To come forrit—to offer oneself as a communicant.

[144] It was a common belief in Scotland that the devil appeared as a black man. This appears in several witch trials and I think in Law’s Memorials, that delightful store-house of the quaint and grisly.

[263] Let it be so, for my tale!