TIBBY FOWLER.

"Tibby Fowler o' the glen, A' the lads are wooin' at her."Old

All our readers have heard and sung of "Tibby Fowler o' the glen;" but they may not all be aware that the glen referred to lies within about four miles of Berwick.

Now, gentle reader, if you have looked upon the scene we have described, we shall make plain to you the situation of Tibby Fowler's cottage, by a homely map, which is generally at hand.

Tibby's parents had the character of being "bien bodies;"

But Tibby, although a sensitive girl, was also, in many respects, a prudent one.

Bearing therefore in her memory the maxim of her frugal parent, Tibby deposited her money in the only bank, we believe, that was at that period in the Scottish capital, and hired herself as a child's maid in the family of a gentleman who occupied a house in the neighbourhood of Restalrig.

Tibby blushed at her foolishness, but she could not help it, she felt interested in the stranger.

This was a severe trial for poor Tibby, and she felt as if she would not be able to stand up against it.

"No, Willie, my ain Willie," she cried, "ye maunna, ye winna leave me already: I have neither faither, mother, brother, nor kindred; naebody but you, Willie; only you in the wide world; and I am a stranger here, and ye winna leave your Tibby.

There's nae danger in the voyage, hinny, no a grain o' danger; sae dinna greet; but come, kiss me, Tibby, and when I come hame I'll mak ye leddy o' them a'.

Five years of unclouded prosperity passed over them, and Tibby had become the mother of three fair children.

She was a beautiful brig, and he had her called the Tibby Fowler.

But four, eight, twelve months passed away, and there were no tidings of the Tibby Fowler.

Britain was then at war; there were enemies' ships and pirates upon the sea, and there had been fierce storms and hurricanes since her husband left; and Tibby thought of all these things and wept; and her lisping children asked her when their father would return, for he had promised presents to all, and she answered, to-morrow, and to-morrow, and turned from them and wept again.

It was then that Tibby and her children, with scarce a blanket to cover them, were cast friendless upon the streets, to die or to beg.

"Gude gracious, Tibby Fowler!"

my ain Tibby and her bairns!"

At the well-known voice, Tibby uttered a wild scream of joy, and fell senseless on the earth; but the next moment her husband, William Gordon, raised her to his breast.

After Tibby and her husband had wept upon each other's neck, and he had kissed his children, and again their mother, with his youngest child on one arm, and his wife resting on the other, he hastened from the spot that had been the scene of such bitterness and transport.

In a few years more, William Gordon having obtained a competency, they re-purchased the cottage in the glen, where Tibby Fowler lived to see her children's children, and died at a good old age in the house in which she had been bornthe remains of which, we have only to add, for the edification of the curious, may be seen until this day.

Runaway prentice; the story of Jeffrey, Susan, Tris & Tibby in the year 1800.

Tibby's venture.

Tibby's venture.

Runaway prentice; the story of Jeffrey, Susan, Tris & Tibby in the year 1800.