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Excerpt from The Luck of a Lowland Laddie
It was Christmas Eve in Scotland. In the night darkness of a glen stood a whitewashed, two-storied house, scarcely distinguishable against the background of a hillside covered with snow. A lonely house, for the few lights still twinkling in the nearest village were half a mile distant. A sleeping house, for all the windows were dark. Yet stay l What was that dull glow in the basement, so quickly brightening to a broad glimmer leaping, falling? Why did the sparks rush angrily from one chimney, ever higher, thicker, into the frosty air? Fire! 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.
