TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
In footnote number 1 (page 72) the author refers toa sketch on the frontisepiece of the book. At the time of posting thisbook to Project Gutenberg, it was verified by the content provider thatthere is no frontispiece in this particular edition of Huntingtower.
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected without comment. Oneexample of an obvious typographical error is on page 237 where the word"shamefaceedly" was changed to "shamefacedly". Other than obvioustypographical errors, the author's original spelling has been left intact.This includes the use of unconventional spelling and dialect.
Inconsistencies in the author's use of hyphens and accent marks have beenleft unchanged, as in the original text.
The following four changes were made to punctuation and spelling:
1. Page 96: An apostrophe was removed from the word "an'" in the phrase"I've found a ladder, an auld yin" (an old one).
2. Page 100: A question mark was changed to a period in the phrase "... herealised that he was in the presence of something the like of which he hadnever met in his life before."
4. Page 187: An apostrophe was removed from the word "wing's" in thephrase "... take the wings off a seagull."
HUNTINGTOWER
JOHN BUCHAN
By JOHN BUCHAN
HUNTINGTOWER
THE PATH OF THE KING
MR. STANDFAST
GREENMANTLE
THE WATCHERS BY THE THRESHOLD
SALUTE TO ADVENTURES
PRESTER JOHN
THE POWER HOUSE
THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS
THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME
NEW YORK: GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
HUNTINGTOWER
BY
JOHN BUCHAN
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1922,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
HUNTINGTOWER. II
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
W. P. KER
If the Professor of Poetry in the University ofOxford has not forgotten the rock whence he washewn, this simple story may give him an hour ofentertainment. I offer it to you because I think youhave met my friend Dickson McCunn, and I dareto hope that you may even in your many sojourningsin the Westlands have encountered one or other ofthe Gorbals Die-Hards. If you share my kindlyfeeling for Dickson, you will be interested in somefacts which I have lately ascertained about his ancestry.In his veins there flows a portion of theredoubtable blood of the Nicol Jarvies. When theBailie, you remember, returned from his journey toRob Roy beyond the Highland Line, he espousedhis housekeeper Mattie, "an honest man's daughterand a near cousin o' the Laird o' Limmerfield."The union was blessed with a son, who succeeded tothe Bailie's business and in due course begat daughters,one of whom married a certain EbenezerMcCunn, of whom there is record in the archives of BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!
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