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The Legend of the Lambton Worm. By Joseph Watson
Lines on the Death of Mr. John Campbell. By Wm. Boag
Brandling

Langley Dale. By Robert Surtees, esq.
The Durham Yeoman

Our Ladye's Girdle. A Border Ballad

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By James Telfer

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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
Lament for Jackey Forster. By Robert Gilchrist

Clouds come over the Brightest Day. By James Henry Dixon, Esq.
Ovingham Fair. (From a Poem entitled "The School Boy," by Thomas Maude,
M. A.)

The Happy Village, a Poem. By Richard Wallis, M. A.
Sir David Graeme
The Northern Rover. By Robert Surtees, Esq.
An Elegy upon my honoured friends and countreymen the valliant Colonels How-
ard, Heron, Fenwick, Lampton, Claverin, and Carnaby, by Francis Wort-
ley, Knight and Baronet
Stanzas to the Memory of the Rev. Robert Clark. A. M. Lecturer of Hexham
The Groupe; A Poem, fancied from a Picture. By William Cowper, A.M.
Grace Darling, by Wordsworth

The Monk of Tynemouth and the Lord of Delaval. By W. B.
Smoking Spiritualized. By Ralph Erskine, V.D.M.

The Morning Star, written at Tynemouth

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Farthing Giles a Poem. By the Rev. Richard Wallis, A.M.
The Hermit of Warkworth. By Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore
Address. Spoken by Mr. Griffiths, at the opening of the New Theatre, New-
castle, on Monday, February 20, 1836. By Thomas Doubleday, esq.
Alexander and the King of Egypt; a Mock Play, as it is Acted by the Mummers
every Christmas. Communicated by Wm. Sandys, esq. F.S.A.

The Battle of Otterburn (near 400 years old).
The Hunting of the Cheviat (above 300 years old).
The More Modern Ballad of Chevy Chase.

Long Lonkin. A Border Ballad. Communicated by Mrs. Blackett...
L'Envoy. By James Henry Dixon, esq.

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