Bits from Blinkbonny; or, Bell o' the Manse

by John Strathesk

“Very likely,” said I, “but if so, it has been quite unintentional on my part. I had no plan before me when I started, nor have I, whilst trying to reproduce bygone times, had any object in view but to present them in a friendly spirit and in a homely garb.”

I hope that my readers will receive in the same spirit these “Bits from Blinkbonny.”

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