To most of the following facts the narrators were themselves eye witnesses, and all of them happened in their day and were fresh in their memories.

The narrator of this news was a tailor, a neat little youth, but so thin that the stars might have shone through him as through Ossian's misty ghosts.

The narrator throughout is the Vicar himself, who tells us the simple joys and sorrows of his family, and the foibles of each member of it.

The narrator is Dr. Martin Hesselius.

Of course, where all made it a pride and pleasure to gratify her wishes, she soon heard enough of Border lore; among others, an aged gentleman of property, near Langholm, communicated to her ladyship the story of Gilpin Hornera tradition in which the narrator and many more of that county were firm believers.