Chapter XXXVI: The Farmer of Liddesdale

_Sources._--MacDougal, _Waifs and Strays_, III. ix. pp. 216-21.

_Parallels._--Campbell, _West Highland Tales_, "The Master and the Man," iii. 288-92.

_Remarks._--I need scarcely suggest the identification of the Ploughman with the----. As usual in folk-tales, that personage does not get the best of the bargain. The rustic Faust evades his contract by a direct appeal to the higher powers. This is probably characteristic of Scotch piety.