Scottish Rivers - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874. Excerpt: ... rpHE Tweed! The silver Tweed! Gentlest of readers, you--may perhaps wonder that, in apparent opposition to the sage advices of our much venerated friend Major Ramsbottom, we should now be disposed to bring before you this most important Scottish river, at so early a period of our campaign. But, to tell you the truth, whilst we by no means intend to hold ourselves responsible for acting at all times under the guidance of particular reasons, we yet confess that we are influenced at present by some which we hold to be very important. In the first place, you have been kindly pleased to give so courteous a reception to our little Jack-snipe of a Jordan--which, as we must confess to you, as a friend, under the rose, we, partly from mere waggery, thought it advisable to place before you as our first dish--that we think it but fair thus speedily to reward you with something really substantial, with what the French would call a piice de resistance, and which John Bull would denominate " a cut and come again." And, secondly, although the Tweed may indeed be considered as one of the chiefs among our Scottish fluvial divinities, yet he is not the first, but only one of the first; and although, when he shall be disposed of, we cannot exactly say of him as King Henry did of the loss of Earl Percy,--"We trust we have within our realm Five hundred as good as he "--yet we shall not be left without a goodly array of his brother river-gods at our back. Then let our courteous reader, a la bonne heure, fall briskly on the feast which we shall speedily spread before him, assuring himself whilst he does so, that he may be in no dread of future starvation, seeing that our garrison is stored in so ample a manner, as to enable us to withstand the siege of a lifetime. The great val...