Scott, Sir Walter
. The Chronicles of the Canongate and Keepsake Stories
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INTRODUCTION-(1831).
The Author has nothing to say now in reference to this little Novel, but that the principal incident on which it turns, was narrated
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to him one morning at breakfast by his worthy friend, Mr Train, of Castle Douglas, in Galloway, whose kind assistance he has so often had occasion to acknowledge in the course of these prefaces; and that the military friend who is alluded to as having furnished him with some information as to Eastern matters, was Colonel James Ferguson of Huntly Burn, one of the sons of the venerable historian and philosopher of that name -- -which name he took the liberty of concealing under its Gaelic form of MacErries. W. S.
ABBOTSFORD, Sept. 1831.
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