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01815aam a2200277Ia 4500 001 048B55EC00A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170304010220 008 151119s2015 kyu b 000 1 eng 020 $a 1484027728 020 $a 9781484027721 035 $a (OCoLC)929989525 040 $a SGB $b eng $c SGB $d SGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d JIN $d SILO 043 $a e-uk-st 100 1 $a Scott, Walter, $d 1771-1832. 245 14 $a The pirate / $c Walter Scott. 260 $a Lexington, Ky : $b CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, $c 2015. 300 $a 295 pages ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-497). 520 $a The circumstances in which "The Pirate" was composed have for the Editor a peculiar interest. He has many times scribbled at the old bureau in Chiefswood whereon Sir Walter worked at his novel, and sat in summer weather beneath the great tree on the lawn where Erskine used to read the fresh chapters to Lockhart and his wife, while the burn murmured by from the Rhymer's Glen. So little altered is the cottage of Chiefswood by the addition of a gabled wing in the same red stone as the older portion, so charmed a quiet has the place, in the shelter of Eildon Hill, that there one can readily beget the golden time again, and think oneself back into the day when Mustard and Spice, running down the shady glen, might herald the coming of the Sheriff himself. Happy hours and gone: like that summer of 1821, whereof Lockhart speaks with an emotion the more touching because it is so rare, - Amazon. 700 1 $a Weinstein, Mark A. 700 1 $a Lumsden, Alison. 941 $a 1 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20170304020602.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=048B55EC00A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b JINInitiate Another SILO Locator Search