Lanterna Rally

Author: James Hogg

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781333569181

Excerpt from The Mountain Bard: Consisting of Ballads and Songs, Founded on Facts and Legendary Tales At the next Whitsunday after our expulsion, I was obliged to go to service; and, being on ly seven years of age, was hired to a farmer in the neighbourhood to herd a few cows. Next year, my parents took me home during the winter quarter, and put me ti) school with a lad, who was teaching the children of a neigh bouring farmer. Here 1 advanced so far as to get into the class who read in the Bible. I had likewise, for some time before my quarter was out, tried writing; and had horribly de filed several sheets of paper with copy-lines, every letter of which was nearly an inch in length. 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.