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Bibliographic information
| Title | Tales of the Scottish peasantry, by H. Duncan and others |
| Author | Henry Duncan |
| Publisher | Oliphant, 1862 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 14 Jul 2006 |
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