The Black Dwarf and Old Mortality Author:Sir Walter Scott General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1886 Original Publisher: The Boston publishing co. Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary History / Europe / Great Britain Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of th... more »e original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: " Hout, Earnscliff, yc keep a record of a' men's misdoings -- Dick's head's healed again, and we're to fight out the quarrel at Jeddart, on the Rood-day, so that's like a thing settled in a peaceable way; and then I am friends wi' Willie again, puit chield -- it was but twa or three hail drops after a.' I wad let ony body do the like o't to me for a pint a brandy. But Willie's lowland bred, poor fallow, and soon frighted for him- eell -- And, for the worricows, were we to meet ane on this very bin " " As is not unlikely," said young Earnscliff, " for there stands your old witch, Hobbie." " I say," continued Elliot, as if indignant at this hint -- "I say, if the auld carline hersell was to get up out o' the grund just before us here, I would think nae mair -- But, gude preserve us, Earnscliff, what can yon be ? " CHAPTER THIRD. Brown Dwarf, that o'er the moorland strays, Thy name to Keeldar tell! "The Brown Man of ihe Moor, that stays Beneath the heather-bell." John I. evdbk. The object which alarmed the young farmer in the middle of his valorous protestations, started for a moment even his less prejudiced companion. The moon, which had risen during their conversation, was, in the phrase of that country, wading or struggling with clouds, and shed only a doubtful and occasional light By one of her beams, which streamed upon the great granite column to which they now approached, th...« less