Winter Evening Tales: Collected Among the Cottagers in the South of Scotland (Classic Reprint)1kg Limited, 2017年7月25日 - 600 頁 Excerpt from Winter Evening Tales: Collected Among the Cottagers in the South of Scotland Though I believe my performance as a ploughman was of a very inferior species, I remember, I soon he came superciliously vain of it, which provoked m neighbour ploughmen to treat me with very little de erence. I was not slack in telling them, that it arose all from envy, at seeing themselves so much outdone by me, in a business which they had practised all their lives, but had never understood. There was no Stand ing of this from a novice, for the border hinds are an independent and high-spirited race of men, and mat ters went on any way but cordially between us. My partial father came over to my side, which made the breach still the wider; and at length they told him to my face, that they would no longer work along with me; for, besides not keeping up my part, and leaving them all the drudgery, I took it upon me to direct them, while, at the same time, I knew no more of farm-la bour than a cat. 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. |
