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iron skerriespitiless breakersand great sea-lights; much of heathery mountainswild clansand hunted Covenanters. Breaths come to him in song of the distant Cheviots and the ring of foraying hoofs. He glories in his hard-fisted forefathersof the iron girdle and the handful of oat- mealwho rode so swiftly and lived so sparely on their raids. Poverty ill-luckenterpriseand constant resolution are the fibres of the legend of his country's history. The heroes and kings of Scotland have been tragically fated; the most marking incidents in Scottish history - Flodden Darienor the Forty-five were still either failures or defeats; and the fall of Wallace and the repeated reverses of the Bruce combine with the very smallness of the country to teach rather a moral than a material criterion for life. Britain is altogether smallthe mere taproot of her extended empire: Scotlandagainwhich alone the Scottish boy adopts in his imaginationis but a little part of thatand avowedly coldsterile and unpopulous. It is not so for nothing. I once seemed to have perceived in an American boy a greater readiness of sympathy for lands that are greatand richand growinglike kids ugg knit boots with buttonsyilai: ugg boots clearance 201005112111542841amq |
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