PAGE. ... The Legend of the Lambton Worm. By Joseph Watson Langley Dale. By Robert Surtees, esq. Our Ladye's Girdle. A Border Ballad ... ... ... ... By James Telfer ... ... Poetic Epistle to Misses Ann and Jane Hedley, Bridge End, near West Woodburn. By Robert Roxby A new Song for Barge-day, 1835. By Robert Gilchrist Clouds come over the Brightest Day. By James Henry Dixon, Esq. The Happy Village, a Poem. By Richard Wallis, M. A. The Monk of Tynemouth and the Lord of Delaval. By W. B. The Morning Star, written at Tynemouth 197 Farthing Giles a Poem. By the Rev. Richard Wallis, A.M. The Battle of Otterburn (near 400 years old). Long Lonkin. A Border Ballad. Communicated by Mrs. Blackett... N the year 1723, Colonel Ridley returned from India, with what, in those days, was accounted an immense fortune, and retired to a country seat on the banks of North Tyne in Northumberland. The house was rebuilt and furnished with every thing elegant and costly; and, among others, a service of plate supposed to be worth £1000. He went to London annually with his family, during a few of the winter months, and at these times there were but few left at his country house. At the time we treat of, there were only three domestics remained there; a maid servant, whose name was Alice, kept the house, and there were besides, an old man and a boy, the one threshed the corn, and the other took care of some cattle; for the two ploughmen were boarded in houses of their own. One afternoon, as Alice was sitting spinning some yarn for a pair of stockings to herself, a pedler entered the hall with a comical pack |