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...ourney in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called Written by himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson with a preface by Mr. Stevenson...

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...ssics Series Publication The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. 3 The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott I. TALES OF MY LANDLORD Collected and Reported by Jedediah Cleishbotham, Sc... ...botham, Schoolmas- ter and Parish-Clerk of Gandercleugh. INTRODUCTION. A s I may, without vanity, presume that the name and official description prefi... ...e- cure it, from the sedate and reflecting part of man- kind, to whom only I would be understood to address my- self, such attention as is due to the ... ...on, which suggested such a character. This poor unfortunate man’s name was David Ritchie, a na- tive of T weeddale. He was the son of a labourer in th... ...in. Tired at length of being the object of shouts, laughter, and derision, David Ritchie resolved, like a deer hunted from the herd, to retreat to som... ... a little alarmed, to see so strange a figure as Bow’d Davie (i.e. Crooked David) employed in a task, for which he seemed so totally unfit, as that of...

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...Excerpt: My Dear Charles, It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Company?s office, must expect his late re-appearance to be greeted with hoo...

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