Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Some Account of the Life and Works of Sir Walter Scott
Two years old, he received a fall out of the arms of a careless nurse, which injured his right foot, and rendered him lame for life this accident did not otherwise affect his health. He was, as I have been informed by a lady who chanced to live near him, a remarkably active and dauntless boy full of all manner of fun, and ready for all manner of mischief. He calls himself, in one of his introductions to Marmion.
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