The Handy Volume "Waverly" ...: A legend of Montrose, &cBradbury, Agnew, 1877 |
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... dwarf - trees , which , finding nourishment in the crevices of the rocks , in some places overshadowed the brow and ledge of the precipice . Below , a thick copsewood lay in deep and dark shadow , somewhat resembling the billows of a ...
... dwarf - trees , which , finding nourishment in the crevices of the rocks , in some places overshadowed the brow and ledge of the precipice . Below , a thick copsewood lay in deep and dark shadow , somewhat resembling the billows of a ...
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... DWARF . " THE BLACK BLACK DWARF . 257 A LEGEND OF MONTROSE . tion, as traditions of no very distant date represent ...
... DWARF . " THE BLACK BLACK DWARF . 257 A LEGEND OF MONTROSE . tion, as traditions of no very distant date represent ...
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... Dwarf's care . " " Ay , ay , " subjoined the old shepherd ( for such he ' was ) , shaking his head , " He'll be unco busy amang the morts this season . " ** The Black Dwarf ! " said my learned friend and patron , Mr. Jedediah ...
... Dwarf's care . " " Ay , ay , " subjoined the old shepherd ( for such he ' was ) , shaking his head , " He'll be unco busy amang the morts this season . " ** The Black Dwarf ! " said my learned friend and patron , Mr. Jedediah ...
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... the rent in thae days , and it had muckle need . " " Odd , Bauldie says very true - short sheep did make short rents - my father paid for our steading just three- score punds , and it stands me in three hundred 263 THE BLACK DWARF .
... the rent in thae days , and it had muckle need . " " Odd , Bauldie says very true - short sheep did make short rents - my father paid for our steading just three- score punds , and it stands me in three hundred 263 THE BLACK DWARF .
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... Dwarf , and siclike , if ye'll ware a half - mutchkin upon Bauldie there , he'll crack t'ye like a pen - gun . And I ... Dwarf had not been forgotten , and the old shepherd Bauldie told so 264 THE BLACK DWARF .
... Dwarf , and siclike , if ye'll ware a half - mutchkin upon Bauldie there , he'll crack t'ye like a pen - gun . And I ... Dwarf had not been forgotten , and the old shepherd Bauldie told so 264 THE BLACK DWARF .
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