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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MYSTIFICATIONS.' ' Health to the auld wife, and weel mat she be, That busks herfause rock wf the lint o' the lee (lie), Whirling her spindle and twisting the twine, Wynds aye the richtpirn into the richt line.' 'MYSTIFICATIONS.'1 THOSE who knew the best of Edinburgh society eight-and-thirty years ago?and when was there ever a better than that best must remember the personations of an old Scottish gentlewoman by Miss Stirling Graham, one of which, when Lord Jeffrey was victimised, was famous enough to find its way into Blackwood, but in an incorrect form. Miss Graham's friends have for years urged her to print for them her notes of these pleasant records of the harmless and heart-easing mirth of bygone times; to this she has at last assented, and the result is this entertaining, curious, and beautiful little quarto, in which her friends will recognise the strong understanding and goodness, the wit and invention, and fine pawky humour of the much-loved and warm-hearted representative of Viscount Dundee? the terrible Clavers. They will recal that blithe 1 Edinburgh: printed privately, 1859. 1 ' Dear Dr. Brown, ?In compliance with your request I send you my genealogy in connection with Claverhouse?the same who was killed at Killiecrankie. John Graham of Claverhouse married the Honourable Jean Cochrane, daughter of William Lord Cochrane, eldest son of the first Earl of Dunand winning face, sagacious and sincere, that kindly, cheery voice, that rich and quiet laugh, that mingled sense and sensibility, which all met, and still, to our happiness, meet in her, who, with all her gifts and keen perception of the odd, and power of embodying it, never gratified her consciousness of these powers, or ever played ' -x ' Her quips and cranks and wanton wiles, ' so as to g...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217490436 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217490433 |
| Weight | 0.65 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 196 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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