Winter Evening Tales: Collected Among the Cottagers in the South of ScotlandEdinburgh University Press, 2002 - 601 pages "Hogg left a written record of three of his many journeys to the Highlands, those of 1802, 1803 and 1804, and in Highland Journeys he offers a thoughtful and deeply-felt response to the Highland Clearances. He gives vivid pictures of his experiences, including a narrow escape from a Navy press-gang, and a Sacrament day with one minister preaching in English and another in Gaelic. Hogg also explains aspects of Gaelic culture such as the waulking songs, and he describes the trade in kelp, lucrative to the landowners but back-breaking and ill-paid for the workers. Highland Journeys makes a refreshing contribution to our understanding of early nineteenth-century travel writing"--Publisher description. |
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Page 217
... thing needful ! an , instead o ' gieing our bairn to the best warstler , gie her at night to him that could pray the best prayer . " " An ' , be me troth , mwother , I wadna sit five minutes in his com- pany , " said Jessie . “ Does tou ...
... thing needful ! an , instead o ' gieing our bairn to the best warstler , gie her at night to him that could pray the best prayer . " " An ' , be me troth , mwother , I wadna sit five minutes in his com- pany , " said Jessie . “ Does tou ...
Page 253
... thing . My father , honest man , used to say to me , even when I was but a wee toddlin thing , that he had sae muckle to lippen to me , that he could hae trustit me wi ' a housefu ' o ' untelled millstanes . The thing that's bred i ...
... thing . My father , honest man , used to say to me , even when I was but a wee toddlin thing , that he had sae muckle to lippen to me , that he could hae trustit me wi ' a housefu ' o ' untelled millstanes . The thing that's bred i ...
Page 482
... thing ! At the hall every thing was in its usual style . There was not an item injured or misplaced from the bottom to the top of the house ; not a book in the library was altered , nor any one thing that they could discern ; all was ...
... thing ! At the hall every thing was in its usual style . There was not an item injured or misplaced from the bottom to the top of the house ; not a book in the library was altered , nor any one thing that they could discern ; all was ...
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