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The Story of Scott's Life.

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| Wavrer Scorr was torn at Edinbargh. ‘on the 15th of August, 1771. His father was a lawyer. His paternal descent was \derived from a Border family known as the | Scotts of Harden—a branch cf the house of | Beecleuch, His mother Anne Ra herford, Was the daughter of Dr. dobn Kutherford, 'a Professor of Medicine in the Univers ty of Edinburgh, lis parents were married ‘in 17038, and they had a numerous family — \twelve children—of waich Walter was one ‘of the young mewhbers, Hs birthplace was ja house in College Wynd near the gute of the University of Edsaburzh. Ic bas since | been demolisbed, Sco't’s iniant years were

|pas-ed partly in this houre and partly in|

| Swallbelm Grange, the farm-house of bis paternal grandfa ber, at u place eriled Sandy Koave, in the vale of the lower Tweed. A ‘brief portion of bis infancy wos spent at Bath, io england, aad at Prestonpans, Io his eivhth year be wa- taken home to bis father’s boase, at Ny. 25 Georg -:quare | EB diwburg h, and en:ercd as a pupil at the

as decided on establishing brauches in this | 4'gh School, where he is said to have ds-

played greater proficeucy in story-'e lug lthan in pursuit of the regular course of bis istudies. The boys, wndeed, catled him Daw | Scuius, ou wecount of bis back letter jscholarsh’p. in Noyemb r, 7383, be was | travsicrred to the University of Kdinburg”, | where be accom; lished a considerate amouan: ‘of desultury s‘udy and reading but where —in consequence of a serious i!lness—he |

nevelist, with which the whole world is fimiliar, It lasted tweu'y-six years, and in the course of that time he made additions to British Literature, more voluminous, and —considering the immense audience ad- dressed —more important than any it bad received since the days of Shakespeare, Ip 18:2 Scott removed to bis newly ac- quired property or Abbotsford, which he straigh'wey began to expand ard embel ish and which be conti-ued to beau ify till about the year 1825, he had completely finished and furnished the noble Gotbie pile that still rema ns—as doubtless it wi'l re- main forever—-the chie! and most hallowed literary shrineof Scotland Here, in tS14, he finished * Waverly,’ which appeored in that year, and [uid the solid foundation of even greater triumphs than he had already achievid, Lo 182?) he received a baronerey, from George the Fourth, and became Sir Walrer

For a long time, as will be seen, his bark had sared smooth!y “bah with wind and siream.”? Favoring breezes continued to fan it forward, till, at length. in 1826, a sudden and terrib!e storm 6! misfortune and off ston burs: all at once upon him, Messrs.

Walter Scott was found to be liable to their creditors for £72,009,

his ndeb’edaess was increased to upward of £120 010.

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f ‘ (doubt, more than anything else, which at! : . t kj i j Cons'abie & Co,, of Kdintu gh, his publit-| nee took

ers, friled in January of that year, and Sr! storm.

Messrs, Ballar- arts, is partly emotional, partiy eritieal. the tyne & Co., bis prinvers, also farled, and, ‘enjoyment and appreciation are only perfect being tiable asa silent partner io that house, vas lner ‘most of the poerry that had been prodaved | And his wile died in tie sime!| doleful year, Tye consternation acd grief }of euch a time might well have broken his | | spirit, and doubtless it wou'd have done so. | ‘bad he not bees a maa of true beroic mold. |

but some iime afterwards, in 1802, when suggested by a glance at the Waverk, confined at home in consequence of the kick Novels ina group. Their titles are. he, ofa horse, Seott resumed working upon appended, c them, and shortly produced tbe poem as it} Waverley, Gay Mannering, the An! now stands. It was written at the rate of quary, Old Mortality, the Black Dwas, about one conto a week, and when publish- Rob Roy, the Heart of Mid-Lothian, J ed—in 1805—it met with prodigious sue- Legend of Montrose. the Bride of Lamme, : cess. This resu t, as we have scen, ewbuirk- moor, [vanhve, the Monastery. the Abbot, | ed him fully and fivally in literature. Kenilworth, the Pirare, the Fortunes «

Oue of the best modern crities of litere- Nize!, Peveril of the Peak. Quentin Du ture, Professor Craik, of Queen’s College ward, St, Ronan’s Well, Red Gauntiet, tt Belfast, makes upon Seott’s poetry, thesub Betrothed, the Talivman, Woodstock. tt! joined compendious and judicious remarks: Cpacorre® of the Cavongate, the Fair Mat ‘His poems are ail lays and romances of of Perth, Aone of Geierstein, Qvuat Rove) chivalry, but infinitely finer than any that|°! Paris, Castle Dangerous, "| have ever before been written, With all | : their irreguiarity and carelessness,— q rali- |

SOoTT’S CHILDREN, j

: The children sir V Seo , ties which in sowe sort are charac’erisie o en of Sir Walter Scott wer of an essential to this k nd of poetry,—ihat) @

f four in nuwber--Sophia, Anne, Waiter an: a. harles. All of t element of life in al) writing, which cows of scala tnia « Hed anes he ~— i excited feeling and earnest belief of the a is esl a tae Gh ockh ‘i } writer, is nev.r wan'ing; this animation, | . ' : ee — ferv ur, enthuiasm—call it by what names at thelr Conghter) Semana: emreney a pun dF : | She w arried tc Mr, R you will—exists in greater strength in mieten kes een fy om . ’ u - poet:y than in that of Scott, redeeming a ere en bikiowt in! assum aed es BS thousand delects and triumphiog. over al Seott 1 ee | rec'amat tons ‘tie's as this, no! . my : ee'amations of er'tiesm, It was this, no - They have kind hearts,’ Seott once sai. ’ : a he’ walle ‘aduchailcn’ bel allus oo to his ch Idren, *aud that is th All aiacntes ia s ho je ‘ i jain poiut.’ * As to Walter.’ be told [i , £ 7 ect : oe! . . . went of poetry, or of any we of th , : ar} nes referring to his eldest soa, * L taugh, povtry, HO renee" him, while a boy, to ride and shoot, an- ~peak the sruth, Every reader know, thar during their earlier years, dreadin | the effects of over-stunulated fancy, be too | ; care that they should not aee any of bi amosg us in modernt:mes, h.d aimed at af-|. - > : ce be ford-veg'chiclly, if wet ‘gale bileghe’ 'é wties! writings. For them, as for himself, and fa ) , jeverbody, he was solcitous first of all o

The hay ct the Last Murs | > : 3 us | hescore of moral reetitude aud substantia tre! surprised readers of all degrees with

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idid nut jong remain, In May, 1785. he Was apprenticed to his fathe: —one of those at ureys that are ca led iv >cotland, writ- fers to the signet—aud began the study o! jaw jassiduity, cousidering that he found it di--| } tasteful, til, in L792 be passed the requi- | sive eXamination aud was callkd to tve bar.

His succes as a lawyer was indifferen’. From chiidbood he had been triflng w th ithe Muse, waking and riding about the

ditt o and character portrait, and storing his capacious and unerring memory witb poetic legend, The resuit was natura! —

This he pros:cu ed with commendable |

in the Scoit'sh capital, and he went to work

| Border Country, in quest of histories 'ra-) with his bercalean euergy, upon the last

| . ” aan : | . . “Lt we lose everything el-e.”” he said, ‘*we! them on with an excitewent of beurt as we | 'will at least keep our bouor unblemshed,”’ | ag of head which miny of them bad never ‘ I wuld rather sll ary bing or) experienced before in the perusal of poetry. every hing thau be less than a trav mau to |The narrative form of the poem. no doubt, the world,”? -——— “Duty to God and to! did much to produce this effec my children must teach me pativnee.”? His! even without the poetry, the evnduet watched his words. He gave up! excitement of a nove’; but all reade: his town hovse In Kdinburgh, to be sold at toe least tinctured with a literary auction and most of his personal property, felr a! so, in a g eater or to be held in trust for bis ereditors He! charm of the verse, and

took modest lodgings in St. David Street, | with which

aod perserverence which be displayed iu this | 19 which the noblest passages are found; |

ty giving to it, | interest and | . Ven |

fCOTT AT HOME. . . . . . ‘ ‘ His domestic animals,’ says Irving giv,

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‘were bis friends, Kverything about hia. seemed to re} ice in the light of his coun, ‘tenance. The face of the humblest depen dent brigh'ened at his approach, as if he an, ticipated a cordial and cheering word, ‘No one’s concerns, no one’s tastes anc, pleasures, seem-d beneath him.’

tis Study wus always open to his child.’ ren no lees than to bis greyhound, * Hy never considered their ta:tle as any distur bance ; they went and came as pleased thei

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|‘ure Wou @u easy vic’ory, iu his mind and |i eart over the fascina'i ns of the law He

id wot relinquish bis legal avveations. To the end of his life, indeed, he beld wa leya! | «flive, But be gave himself, more and more as tne days passed to those pursuits of poetry and romence to which be was both j mpelled and fitted by the latent power and |iuterlor consci usness of gerius, His first | publication apperred in 1796, and was a [ weneaincion ot Burger’s * Linore.? This he ; wade im the course of ore night, in fu fi'- | ment of a promise to Miss Cransioun—al- |terwatd Countess of Punystali~ an aceom- | plished and diserning lady, who thereupon | prophesied that he would © turn out a poet; |~ Metniog Of a eross between Burus ond Gry.’ Prescott, in a thought al and ger- Ge essay on Sir Waiter Se tt, has noticed |}—with @ delicate touch of taste- tha’ Seori’s + first preduction, by a singular chance, came into the world in the very year | (Burus dying in 1796) in which the Ayr- jsh re Mistiel wes wihdiawn from it; as iif Nature had intend. d that the chain of poetic inspiraticn shud not be broken.’ | ln 279) Scott contributed to * Monk ’| Lewis’s - Tales of Worder’—a fantastic and sbort-lived compilation—three ballads eutiled *Gilengioias’? ‘The Eve of Si Jobo,’ ana ‘The Grey Biovher,’ These ballads af erwards reappeated, with others of kindred character and merit, in his ** Minsrreirs of the Scortish Border”? Io Dec-sber 1797, Scott was married His wife was Mixes Coarlo'te Margaret Carpen- ter, the daughter of French purente, bu: educated in Kayland under the care uf Lord Downsbire, His first residence after war riage were in Kdingburg in George S*ree and in South Castle street; but in 1798 he tok up his abode in a ovely rural cottage at Lasswade, Sevti’s married lif: wa: very happy. He had offered, in 1795-6, a greivous disappoin ment in love, but his manly hart had thorough!y enquered hi- ssrrow, and be never disployed the least morbid sensibility on the subject.

eruel erises and the -udden success with | which his manly labor was reward:d, have | otten been told, His‘ory dves not record

though the most domestic attrae'ions of ‘Le | questions ; and when they, uncoreicus how: Lady of the Lake’ (181°!) made it the most | he was engaged, entreated bim to lay dowr?

a more illustrious example of Cevotion t0/ his success, the example be had set, and the duty than was thus afforded by Sir Waiter tastes which he hid awakened in the public seott, To keep bis honor uublemished aed | mind, had affected our literature to an ex-| to brave the estate for which he had to:led | tent, in various directions, which has scarce- | so long and so hard, the grand old ae ly been sufficioutly appreciated. Nothwich-| laid down bis life Within the next four} stand-ng the previous appearance of Words- years be had paid more than £100.€09, and | worth, Coleridge, Southey, and some other paved the way for payment of the residue | writers, it was Scott who first in bis day | Towards the close of 18 Ohis health be-| nade poetry the rage. But what is still | gan to fail. Paralysis —bereditary in bis | wore wortby of nove is that Scot's nsdtry! {.mily and acee erated by these tremerdous | impressed its own churacter upon ali the po | exertiobs —overtcok him in the nex! vear, | eiry that was produced among us for many FR reiga travel was edved, with rest from years alter; it put an end to long works in, ‘li men al effort, The Admisality of Great | verse of a didatin or merely reflective | Britain furvished a ship, the Barbam, for! character and directed the eurrent of all | his trasportation to ltaly In that couatry writiny of that kind into the form of nar | he met with the mst delicate a‘tenrion and | pative. Kven Wordsworth’s ‘Excursion’ | the wost signal honours But he = [1814] is. for the most part, a collection of

| tnore found the vanished angel of health | :aics, If Scott’s own genius, were to be! Fatigue and beat brought on another stroke} described by any single epithet it would be | of disease, and the giant was reduced 10} valied a narrative genius. Henes, when he} ths verge of wmbecility His one hope and | lef: off writing verse, he betvok himselt | his one word was—Abbotstord, Toe rap-| to the production of fiction in prose, which | id journey homeward from Naples to Lon-| were really substantially the eame thing | don and thence to Abbotsford, bas been des | with his poems, and, in‘that freer form of eribed by Lockbort in some of the most sim-) composition, succeeded in achieving a sec- ple and tender words in his admirable bi- | ond reputation, stil more brilliant than the

| The Barone'ey was

popular at its first appearance, Meaawhile|bis pen und tell them a story, he would

take them on bis knee, repeat a ballad or «

l-geat, kis them and set then down agair’

tc their marbles or pinepins, and resume

his labour asif refreshed by tho interrupt!

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Scott’s Baronetcy was conferred on him, we are told, not t2 consequence of any minis. terial suggestion, but by the King (George the Fourth; personally and of his own un- ‘o'icited motion; and when the poet kissec, his ha:d be said to him: *T shall always’ ° reflect with pleasure on Sir Walter Secor’: hav ng been the first creation of my reign.’ given to Scott yn April, 1820. {he admiration which George the | Fourth felt for the poet seems to have beer yenuive: and that be was capub'e of feel. ing it is a fact that does him eredit, Onc

;

of the literary treasures of Abbots!ord, by,

he w

ay, was a copy of Montfaucon’s An) ti

quities, in fifteen volumes, richly bound ic

|sGurlet velvet, presented to Scott by the |

frieudly monarch, ’ S9OTT’Ss PERSONAL APPRARANCE, ;

Seo't, at twenty, is thus described in

ography. Seort reaceed his home on the | iJch of July, 1831. When at the dis- trance of a mile he caught signt of bic own | rowers, he spraug up in the carriage wich a | ery of de ight, When lifted iaro bis dine | ing room, ‘his dogs assembed about his| chair aod begaa to fawn apon bim and liek | nis hand, and he alternately subbed - nd| smiled over them until -leep oppressed bh m 7 it isa pirful story of dechae. He bad | some intervals of consciousness and reason | but for the most part remzined in siupor, The last sceue, however. wis bappily brief. | God’s mercy relieved hm by death, on the| 2'st of S-ptember, 183°. “Lt was a beau tiful day,’ says Lockhart, sso warm that | every window was wide open—and 60 per- feetly still ‘bat the sourd of all others wos | delicious to his ear,—the gentle ripple o! | the Tweed over its pebble »— Was distinerly | audibie, as Wwe knelt around the bed, and |

‘* The Minstrels of the Seottish Border,’

pesred in 18U2

to which reference has hus been made, a:-| Li compri-ed the result of |

; his e'dest son kissed snd closed his eyes No sculp or never modeiled a more maj s- tc mage of repose.’ His funeral took

first. | Lockbari’s Lite:—* Young Walter Scott To this especially clear, just and useful | was a comely creature. He bed ow grows’ piece of eriticisw—wh'ch ts also history, for | the sillowaess of early ill-health, and bad s! ur present purpo-e—we 2ppend acomplere | tresh, brillant comp'exion, His eyes were list of Scott’s publicat.oos in Poetry:— | clear, open, and well set, with a changefal | The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Ballads|**@*9e"> to which teeth, of the most per: of Lyrieal Pieces, Marmion, The Lady ot | feet regularity and whitenees, lens yey a the Lake The Vistwon of Don Roderick |*!t#Pce- while the nob e expans- and eleva Rokeby, The Bridal of Triermata, The Lord | tion of the brow gave to the whole aspect of the Isles. The Field of Waterloo, Harold |* 4'gtty far above tbe charm of mere won the Diectiies! jtures. His smile was always delightful, a ES 1e12, and I can easily faney the peculiar inter.” Sot rlareed the ciel of, vm agp inact arity and humor inthe o say anything. that the fores in the *Liy’ Paper a — nares “t is thrown on aty e; in*Marmion,’ on des-| pir ae ity Sapres tial tbe cription; and in The Lady of the Lake,’ on | sre) Ps dpe seals ateeiaadale my m8 bave been ewinently handsome, Tail, incident, much above the usual standard, it was cast’ in the very model of a young Hercules, the!

ake cd : . a j ‘ Waverley : or, ’Tis Sixty years Sinee,’ | hea® set on witha sioga ar grace, the throat

WAVERLEY.

was —as ull the world koows—the first o |and chest after the truest mode! of the an-*% |

the great series that bas taken permancn: | tique, the hands delicately finished, | the i whole outline that of extraordinary vigor, ,

| mixture of tenderness and gravity with’ | ;

: : rank in literature as the Waverley Novels. | Investigations commenced before he was ten |p ace on the 26th of September and his re-| Phe composition of it was commenced in| withvu’ as yet a touch of ¢ umsiness.””

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| be publication of this book. December, 1739, Scott Sheriff of Selkirk, | pub ished a translation of Goethe’s tragedy lof *Govtz von Briichngen.? Also he visited London, in company with his wife | aud inspec ed the antiqu ties at Westminster | Abbey the Tower, and the British Viuseum. | He had first seen these memorable placcs| when less than four years old, yet he re- membered them well. ** | wasas:onished,”’ be says, in bis fragment of Au oniography. | ‘to find bow accurate my recoilections of |

wen ioved that oceurred prior to the) Ou the 16:h of | Was appointed | ip the same year he |

these celebrated places of visita'ion proved | to be, and | have ever sicce trus‘ed more implicitly to my juvenile remini cences,”’ In 1804, be published bis annotated edition of the oid poem of ** Sir Tristram,’’ com- posed in the thirteenth cenrury by Thomas of Erceldonnec, cailed tbe Rnymer, This enbasced bis reputation, but it was not rll the next vear, 150), that he made the great | success— by puo ishing *The duady of the Last Minsire),’— which led to his complete devotion to literature, and which introduced | an entirely new school of Brisish poetry. This work bas been ¢ rrectly described as ‘a complete expansion of the ancient ballad into an epic form’ [ts triumph exalted rhe, ‘ua'bo: in the esteem of bis co-tewporaries, ‘and ted, among other resulis, to one pice of professional good fortune. Scott was ‘sppomted a Clerk of the Court of Sessions, | with a selary of £560, whieh was afterwards ‘increased to 41,300,

Meanwhile, in 1 04, be bad removed from Lasswade to Asbastel. He now re linquisbed jegal practice and fully entered

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‘comprehend the following, which were the ‘fruits of the first eight years of Scott’s lit- erery life: —

The Burger Ballads

upou the splendid career a8 a poet aud

years old; it was printed in beautiful style | maros—followed by @ great prvcesston Of | he summer of 180). by bis schoo!-fellow, ames Ballap yhe, and | mouroers of a'l classes—were laid beneath! y.9¢ at this time was the labor of editing | Sir Walier Scott is offorded in the following. it was welcowed with avidity and read with| an aise in Dryburgh A bey. A flat stone,| iho Works of Dryden ; and it was to lighier: | lines, from the rapid and vigorous sketch, delight. This was his fir-t emphaticsuccess | of pol:sbed red granite, mirks the spot, in-' ghe monotony of that occupation that he! f the author ia the American Oyclo; aedia :

in lieratare. Three ineicents of note should serihed with bis name and the date of bis tied bis hand at the Historical Novel. He ** was tall and of vigorous frame. and ia,

death. <COTT’S WORKS,—THE STORY OF HIS LAROR, The early works of Scott should be view- ed by themselves ina group. They were produced in what may be called the experi mental perod of his cureer——that period | which was full of flirtation with Thesps field-sports, research into the legepdary lore cf his beloved Scotland, and rambles | among the pesaotry; that period in which, as one Of biscomp:unions said, in later years. | ‘tie was makin’ himsel a’ the time; but he) didna ken, maybe, what be was about, till | At first he thought o’|

fun.’ Under the title of early works we!

- 1796. Translation of Goeth’s Goetz von Ber- lichingeon. . 4 1799 Tragedy of the House of Aspen 17 Bailads in Monk Lewis’s Talcs of Wea-

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SCOTT’S POEMS.

‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel,’ Ike Cowper’s ‘Tack,’ owed its orig’n to the wish of a lady, the Countess of Dalkeith, who enjoined upon Scott that he should compose a Border Batiad on the grole-que legeud of Gilpin Horser ‘Had she asked me to write a ballad on e bre@cwstick,’ he subsequently said, *l must have a'tewpted it,’ Tbe first result of the attempt was a few verses called *The Goblin Page,’ These were little estecmed, and were laid aside ;

‘in w desultory manner,

Scort’s serous busi-| A glimpse of the personal appearance of!

* Waverley’ seems, however, to have been | walking betrayed his lameness only by a1; begun in an indolent rpirit and prosecuted) slight si k ng of the right limd, His bead, *Woeo | bad pro-| way long aod cylindrical ia shape, bis com-, eceded as far, | think, as the seveuth chap-| viexion fair, aud his eyes—surmounted by, ter’—Sestt afterward wiote—*i showed/\arge bushy eyebrows—were small and;

my work to a critical friend, whose opinion |grey. The expression of bis countenance |i

was ubfavorable; and, having then some Was somewhat heavy, but in conversation), ¥

poetical repu’ation, 1 was uowilling to rek or iv moments cf relaxation, it brightened,’ the loss of it by attempting a new style of up with great animation,” , composition, [, therefore, then threw avid: Prescott, the bistori.n, in an essay on the work I bad commenced, without either Scot, [143%], noted the opinion that; re'uctance or temonstrance.’ Nine years | worldly sugacity or shrewdness was @ promi- , afterward. in 1814—having, in the mean-|aent trait of expression in the face of “ir; tima, supplemented *The Lay of the Last | Walter Scott. * Lodeed, bis countenance” 5 Mivstre!’ with * Marmion,’ ‘The Lady o! says this writer, “ would seem to exbibit, the Lake,” * Rokeby,’ * The Vision of Don | ordinarily, much more of Dandie Dinmont’s ; Rolerick’ and ‘The Bridal of Trierwa o,’ | benevolent shrewdness than of the eye» and having seen the lustre of bis splendid | g'ancing from earth to heaven, whieh ia - poetic repu ation begin to wane in the ra-|/aney we assign to the poot, and which, io 4 diance of the new!ly-risen star of Byron—}-ome moods, toust have been his ”’ . be turned again to bis neglected manuscript irving’s description should not be omit-/ resumed his work upon it, and, in the brict | ‘ed, famiiar though it be—for it is exceed- «paee of throe weeks. completed the first o! ing'y fresh and animated:—‘* In a littler’ the Waverley Novels, Ballavtyne. the, while the lord of the eastle bimself made: publisher, bad to!d bim that the sale of bis sis appearance. 1 knew bim at once, by poerry was deeining, But Seot:’s genius | the descriptions | had ceard and read, aod: was the sublmity of common sevse, aod no'the likenesses that had been publisbed of caprize of the popular tase could dampen | him. its a:dcur or terter its industry, *Sioce|erful frame. Uis dress was simple aud aly, ove line bas failed, besaid, ‘we must sirike | most rustic. An eld green shooting coat, 4 out something else.’ Tne something else | with a doz-whistle at the Dutton-hole, browa was the series of tventy-8°x novels—yot ‘o| linen pantaoons, stout ehoes that tied st b, speak of the six smaller tale-—which alone | the ankle, apd a white hat that had evident- ‘ would have sufficed to make his name il/us- ly seen services He came limping up the ; triows, and which have conferred upon the | gravel walk, aiding bimse!f by a stout walk-¢ human race an incalculable amouut of inuc-| ing staff but moving capidly aud with vigor. : eeat and healthful pleasure. | By bis side j gzed aloug a large iron grey: An idea of the fertility of Seott’s mind, | stog-hownd, of a most grave dewesvor, who and of the prodigious and unremitting iv-\|(ook uo part in the clamor of the canine

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