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Excerpt from The New Monthly Magazine, 1864, Vol. 132
Tue period referred to in the following tale is at the early part of the present century; a time when railroads were not in existence; when. Steam was in its infancy; when the great French Revolution, which had' overthrown the d asty of the Bourbons, was fresh in the recollection of every one; and t a lost cause of the unfortunate Stuarts still rankled in man a Scotch mind, and still created feelings of hostility against their English neighbours. It is, however, with some of these English neigh bours that we have first to do.
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