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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1861 Excerpt: ... THE STORY OF HUGH MILLER'S EAELY DAYS. Hugh Miller was born at Cromarty, in 1802. His ancestors were a race of adventurous and skillful sailors, who had coasted the Scottish shores as early as the days of Sir Andrew Wood and the bold Barton. His great grandsire, one of the last of the buccaneers that sailed the Spanish Main, had invested a portion of his surplus doubloons in the long, low cottage where the subject of our sketch first drew breath. To avoid the hereditary fate of the family--which, in its male members, had, during many generations, nearly all perished at sea--Hugh Miller's grandmother consigned his father to the care of an aunt married to a neighboring farmer. But an agricultural life was not his destiny. The boy was sent to drown a litter of puppies; his young heart relenting, he found the task impossible, and towards gloaming wandered home to his mother with the doomed quadrupeds tucked up in his kilt. "Mother," said the boy, in reply to a maternal ejaculation of surprise. "I couldna drown the little doggies, mother! and I brought them to you." The youth who "couldna drown the doggies" afterwards did very effective execution upon the Dutch off the " Dogger Bank." in the memorable naval action of the name. Retiring from the service of his country--into which, indeed, he had been pressed without his consent--the next glimpse we have of Hugh Miller's father, he is master of a craft that sails from his native Cromarty. For a time fortune smiles upon the hardy tar; but, while sunning himself in success, he was doomed to feel how quickly adversity sometimes follows upon the heels of fortune. Early in November, 1797, Miller's sloop, which for some days had lain wind-bound in the port of Peterhead, left its moorings and bore out to sea. The breeze ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150461811
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 68
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150461810
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 141 gr


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