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Author of this little work spent, many years ago, a few weeks in Eskdale, the scene where she has placed the principal events of her tale. The beauty of the country made a deep impression on her mind at the time ;perhaps the more so, from its being the farthest excursion southward that she had then made from her native home. She, however, by no means pretends to portray its scenery in the course o... More

Author of this little work spent, many years ago, a few weeks in Eskdale, the scene where she has placed the principal events of her tale. The beauty of the country made a deep impression on her mind at the time ;perhaps the more so, from its being the farthest excursion southward that she had then made from her native home. She, however, by no means pretends to portray its scenery in the course of her narrative with minute accuracy. Too long a period has since elapsed, and she has seen in the interval too great a variety of places to retain an exact recollection of every spot in this delightful dale; but its general features remain strongly fixed in her memory ;and she hopes that her young readers will not find her tale less interesting from any slight inaccuracy they may discover in the local description. The general character and manners of the inhabitants are, she believes, more correctly represented; for there is scarcely an exemplification of them in the following pages, of which she has not known a counterpart in real life. The respect universally paid by parishioners to their clergyman, their familiar intercourse, and the great influence which the latter derives from forming their minds and morals, are circumstances which have fallen under her own observation, not only in Eskdale, but in various other parts of Scotland ;and she has felt a peculiar satisfaction in describing the simple and useful life of Mr. and Mrs.
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