The Highland Clearances by John Prebble

Author:John Prebble
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141933160
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2009-03-24T04:00:00+00:00

It is encouraging to find that such opinions are making their way among poor men who recollect well that their fathers and grandfathers contrived somehow to live while their employment mainly consisted in walking about all day with their hands in their pockets, and at night sitting down and telling traditions about great lords and mighty chiefs, and stories about ghosts and fairies, while their mothers and grandmothers, though living on the poorest fare, would have looked upon themselves and their families as eternally disgraced if it were to get out to the public that they had sold a dozen eggs.

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