Author: John Buchan

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-22

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780365358732

Excerpt from The Watcher by the Threshold: And Other Tales Northern Antiquities. So much for Oxford. My vacations had been spent mainly in the N orth - in Ireland, Scotland, and the Isles, in Scandinavia and Iceland, once even in the far limits of Finland. I was a keen Sportsman of a sort, an old-experienced fisher, a fair shot with gun and rifle, and in my hillcraft I' might well stand comparison with most men. April has ever seemed to me the finest season of the year even in our cold northern altitudes, and the memory of many bright Aprils had brought me up from the South on the night before to Aller foot, whence a dogcart had taken me up Glen Aller to the inn at Allermuir; and now the same desire had set me on the heather with my face to the cold brown hills. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.