Excerpt from All About Tam O' Shanter: With Brief Papers on Alloway Kirk, "Souter Johnny," Captain Grose, Etc And reached the open country, he found himself at the mercy Of the wildest storm that ever blew in Scotland - at least in his generation. The lightning lared, the thunder crashed, the rain rattled, and the wind howled. The farmer's homeward course lay past the scene of many a dreadful story, told late at night by smouldering peat fires to shuddering listen ers. Here an unfortunate pedler had perished miserably in the snow a little farther on, where a huge rock stood near a clump of birch trees. A drunk en ne'er-do-weel had broken his useless neck; some distance farther on a party Of hunters had one day found a murdered babe; on yet farther was an abandoned well, guarded by an aged hawthorn tree, where a wretched old crone had hanged herself. But the most fearsome landmark of all was Kirk Allo way; a little, Old, ruined church near a bridge, span ning the river Doon, over which Tam had to 'cross. Any Old wife could tell you that this was the worst haunted place in all Scotland. It is probable that as Tam charged headlong through the inferno of war ring elements, his confused wits busy with excuses to be offered to the frowning Kate, he wished himself well past this dreaded spot. Emerging at length. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.