Author : John Gibson Lockhart
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780366556441
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (564 download)
Book Synopsis Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. 3 of 4 (Classic Reprint) by : John Gibson Lockhart
Download or read book Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. 3 of 4 (Classic Reprint) written by John Gibson Lockhart and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. 3 of 4 It may well be supposed that the President of the Boldside Festival and the Abbotsford Hunt, did notomit the good old costum of thejkim. Every November, before quitting the country for Edinburgh, he gave a harvest home, on the most approved model of former days, to all the peasantry on his estate, their friends and kindred, and as many poor neighbours besides as his barn could hold. Here old and young danced from sunset to sunrise, J obn of Skye's bagpipe being relieved at intervals by the violin of some Wandering Willie; - and the laird and all his family were present during the early part of the evening, be and his wife to distribute the contents of the first tub of whisky-lpunch, and his young people to take their due share in the endless reels and hornpipes of the earthen floor. As Mr Merritt has said of him as he appeared at Laird Nippey's kirn of earlier days, to witness the cor diality of his reception might have unbent a misanthrope. He had his private joke for every old wife or gausie carle, his arch compli ment for the ear of every bonny lass, and his hand and his blessing for the head of every little Eppie Daidle from Abbotstown or Broomy lees. 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.