Author : S. R. Crockett
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ISBN 13 : 9781330601822
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (18 download)
Book Synopsis Silver Sand (Classic Reprint) by : S. R. Crockett
Download or read book Silver Sand (Classic Reprint) written by S. R. Crockett and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Silver Sand The Declaration of Nathan Crogo, Dominie in Leswalt, Prefixed to this Trustworthy History, writ for such as love the Quaint and Humorsome. I, Nathan Crogo, sometime schoolmaster and parish clerk in Leswalt or Saulseat) in the Rhynns of Galloway, have checked carefully page by page this story of the wonderful youth of John Faa most often called Silver Sand but by the grace of God, and the belting of King James the Sexth and First, rightful Lord and Earl of Little Egypt. In my frisky youth I could doubtless have allowed the chronicle to go forth in the more fluent and romantical style in which it was first written, but age steals the poetry out of a mans joints, though, to make amends, it sometimes makes his mood more humorous and ironic. So blame the rusty jade Time, if you find I have not left enough of the flowers of language, and if the most part be written in a dry and jog-trot way, as if, while the writer scribbled, he smiled at his own folly. The which, indeed, I often enough did for him. But it stiffens the wits to be setting dunces copy-lines for well-nigh forty years. The searching out of proverbs which shall just fill a line of small text, breaks the fine roll of page-long sentences, and the habit of petulance betrays the dominie though sometimes it adds flavour to the conversations. The rule I have laid down of avoiding references to the classics, however apposite, though a grief to myself, is relentlessly carried out in the interests of the unlettered reader. Indeed, I have allowed the writer to obtrude himself, save in the matter of reflections by the way, just as little as his intimate and particular connection with the history would permit. 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.
