THE

THREE PERILS OF WOMAN;

A SERIES OF

DOMESTIC SCOTTISH TALES.

EDINBURGH :

PRINTED BY JAMES BALLANTYNE & Co.

THREE PERILS OF WOMAN ;

OR,

Love, Leasing, and Jealousy.

A SERIES OF

DOMESTIC SCOTTISH TALES.

BY JAMES HOGG,
AUTHOR OF 66 THE THREE PERILS OF MAN,"
"QUEEN'S WAKE," &c. &c.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

The fam❜ly sit beside the blaze,
But O, a seat is empty now!
JOHN GIBSON.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

THE

THREE PERILS OF WOMAN.

PERIL FIRST.

Love.

CIRCLE FIRST.

I FEAR I am in love," said Gatty Bell, as she first awakened in her solitary bed in the garret room of her father's farm-house. "And what a business I am like to have of it! I have had such a night dream dreaming, and all about one person; and now I shall have such a day thinking and thinking, and all about the same person. But I