Flower O the Orange: And Other Tales, of Bygone Days (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Flower O the Orange: And Other Tales, of Bygone DaysPerched high upon the southernmost headland of Galloway, looking down on the one side sheer from the lip of the cliff upon the foaming fringe of Luce Bay, and on the other upon the gently-sloping green lands of woods and fat meadows, stands Eagernesse.The ancestral home of the Carmichaels is one of those buildings peculiar to Scotland, which bear the impress of every period of national history. Its foundations rest within the forgotten mounds of camps once Pictish, later Roman, the thick, tall, square Peel, noted landmark to all sailers into Solway Firth, still rises, but for the ivy of its walls and its roof of more civilised contrivance, much as it did while the middle ages and subsequent warlike centuries rolled by.Around this frowning pile, with the growth of modern security, has likewise grown the comfort of modern dwellings.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.