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neighbours, and stock the farms, and sow the
fields for next year. And Fairnilee became a
very rich and fortunate house, for Randal
married Jean, and soon their children were
playing on the banks of the Tweed, and rolling

 

down the grassy slope to the river, to bathe on
hot days. And the old nurse lived long and
happy among her new bairns, and often she
told them how it was she who really found the
Gold of Fairnilee.

You may wonder what the gold was, and how
it came there? Probably Father Francis, the
good Melrose Monk, was right. He said that