This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xi anstruther and cellardyke The chief of these fishing towns is Anstruther, with its neighbour, Cellardyke. Anstruther is a much bigger place than St. Monans or Pittenweem, and with its spacious harbour forms the great rallying place for herring-boats all round the Firth. Here are the big ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xi anstruther and cellardyke The chief of these fishing towns is Anstruther, with its neighbour, Cellardyke. Anstruther is a much bigger place than St. Monans or Pittenweem, and with its spacious harbour forms the great rallying place for herring-boats all round the Firth. Here are the big fish-curing yards, sail-makers, rope-makers, places for barking nets, and all the other various industries connected with the trade. Characteristic too, the buildings round the harbour are much less picturesque than in the two smaller towns, for they are more modern, a sure sign of prosperity. Anstruther has, however, a history stretching far into the past. Dreel Castle, the old seat of the Anstruthers, just overhanging the harbour, could tell many tales, one of which concerning how the house of Anstruther came by its coat of arms, must take a place on our stage by itself, as a fine old-world melodrama. Away back in the days of Robert 1n. Sir William Anstruther lived at Dreel Castle with his only daughter Margaret. "Fisher Willie" he is called, for he loved to spend his time on the Firth, a scourge to the pirates there, and, if truth be told, a thorn in the side of neighbours, towards whom he was not well disposed. The daughter, in all the bloom of her youth, tall and slender, with golden hair and deep blue eyes, is the pride of the countryside. She is just homefrom a prolonged stay at the Court, where, though her fond father little knows it, her heart has been captured by the gay and debonair Patrick Home, the son of the Earl of Home. But there is trouble brewing here, for the two families have been bitter enemies since the days when a Home slew Sir William's grandfather in a fight on the Firth. And now enters the villain of the piece. The...
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Very Good + First edition. Cloth hardbound with gilt titles, gilt top edge, 258 pp. + ads., illustrated with tipped in plates (including frontispiece), clean unmarked text, Very Good+ copy, light soil or discoloration to some pages of the text including offsetting from some of the illustrations, covers with some discoloration, minor rubbing or wear to the tips and edges of the cloth covers, no dust jacket. Contents complete. Rare.
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