KATHARINE LEE BATES.

WELLESLEY COLLEGE,
March, 1904.



CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

BALLADS OF SUPERSTITION.
THE WEE WEE MAN
TAMLANE
TRUE THOMAS
THE ELFIN KNIGHT
LADY ISOBEL AND THE ELF-KNIGHT
TOM THUMBE
KEMPION
ALISON GROSS
THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL
A LYKE-WAKE DIRGE
PROUD LADY MARGARET
THE TWA SISTERS O' BINNORIE
THE DEMON LOVER
RIDDLES WISELY EXPOUNDED

BALLADS OF TRADITION.
SIR PATRICK SPENS