Perhaps some of the readers of this village story, in their summer holidays, may have fished the streams flowing through the wide domain of Castle Bennock, under the guidance of the sedate yet original underkeeper, John Hall; and may have "put up" at the neat and comfortable country inn, the "Bennock Arms", kept by John Spence and his comely wife Mary Semple--the one working the farm, and the other managing the house and her numerous and happy family. If so, they cannot fail to have noticed the glass case in the parlour, enclosing a stuffed Starling, with this inscription under it--
"I'M CHARLIE'S BAIRN".
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Blackie's
Library of Famous Books
for Boys and Girls
R. M. BALLANTYNE--
The Young Fur Traders.
The Coral Island.
Martin Rattler.
Ungava.
The Dog Crusoe.
The World of Ice.
The Gorilla Hunters.
Deep Down.
The Lighthouse.
Erling the Bold.
The Lifeboat.
Gascoyne, the Sandalwood Trader.
W. H. G. KINGSTON--
Mark Seaworth.
Peter the Whaler.
The Three Midshipmen.
Manco, the Peruvian Chief.
J. FENIMORE COOPER--
The Pathfinder.
Deerslayer.
The Last of the Mohicans.