TITLEThe Raiders 1894, being some passages in the Life of John Faa, Lord and Earl of Little EgyptThis is a scanned copy of the original book containing both searchable text and the original graphics. It is provided as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file, you can search for names, places and items which may not be in the index. It can also be purchased at a reduced price from lulu.com as a downloadable PDF eBook. |
AUTHOR
Rev, Samuel Rutherford CROCKETT (M: 1860 Sep 24 - 1914 Apr 21), Samuel
Rutherford Crockett (September
24, 1860
- April
16, 1914),
was a Scottish
novelist,
born at Duchrae, Galloway,
the son of a Galloway farmer. See wikipedia.
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PUBLISHEDT Fisher Unwin, Paternoster Sq. London |
DESCRIPTIONTHE RAIDERS, Being, Some Passages in the Life of John Faa, Lord and Earl of Little Egypt: BY S. R. Crockett FOURTH EDITION"The Scotch seem to be exerting themselves nobly in fiction. We have Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Barrie, and now Mr. Crockett, in * The Raiders,' is making both of these authors look to their laurels. . . . ' The Raiders' is a book difficult to lay down, a delightful book of adventure in a field untrodden by romance, in the wild, wild kingdom of Galloway. . . . Here we have a thoroughly enjoyable novel, full of fresh, original, and accurate pictures of life long gone by." " This is a book of full and rich texture, abounding in delightful incident and charming description, and wrought throughout with art and style." Foreward: I, Patrick Heron of Isle Rathan in Galloway', begin the writing of my book with thanks to God, the Giver of all good, for the early and bountiful harvest which He has been pleased to give us here in little Scotland, in this year of His Grace, 17—. It is not the least of the Lord's mercies that throughout all this realm, both hill-land and valley-land, the crops of corn, Merse wheat, Lowden oats, and Galloway bear, should be in the stackyards under thack and rape by the second day of September. So, with a long back-end before me, the mind running easy about the corn, and prices rising, I am not likely to get a better season of quiet to write down the things that befell us in those strange years when the hill outlaws collogued with the wild freetraders of the Holland traffic, and fell upon us to the destruction of the life of man, the carrying away of much bestial, besides the putting of many of His Majesty's lieges in fear Now it will appear that there are many things in this long story which I shall have to tell concerning my self which are far from doing me credit, but let it not be forgotten that it was with me the time of wild oat sowing when the blood ran warm. Also these were the graceless, unhallowed days after the Great Killing, when the saints of God had disappeared from the hills of Galloway and Carrick, and when the fastnesses of the utmost hills were held by a set of wild cairds—cattle reivers and murderers, worse than the painted savages of whom navigators to the far seas bring us word. It was with May Mischief that all the terrible blast of storm began (as indeed most storms among men ever do begin with a bonny lass, like that concerning Helen of Troy, which lasted ten year and of which men speak to this day). The tale began with May Mischief as you shall hear. I keep the old name stilly though the years have gone by, and though now in any talks of the old days and of all our ancient ploys, there are the bairns to be considered. But it is necessary that ere the memory quite die out, some one of us who saw these things should write them down. Some, it is true, were deeper in than I, but none saw more or clearer, being so to speak at both the inception and the conclusion of the matter. |
LANGUAGE: English |
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