Tales Of The Borders And Of Scotland

Author : John Mackay Wilson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483220829
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 11 written by John Mackay Wilson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 11: Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative; With a Glossary An opposition or check which Gourlay did not al together like; for, in secret truth, he had long con templated an entry by these said skeleton keys, and, like all people who want a justification for some act they wish to perform, not altogether consistent with what is right, he had often in serious playfulness knocked his foot against the Old worm-eaten, wood-rusted, dry-rotted door, as if he expected some confined ghost to shriek, like that unhappy spirit of the Buchan Caves, Let me out, let me out whereupon Mr. Gourlay would have been, we doubt not, more humane than his Old father god, who would not let the pretty mother of love out of his iron not. 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.