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BELOVED OF MEN—AND DOGS
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From the painting by Sir Henry Raeburn.
SIR WALTER SCOTT.

Scotchman, “but he didna ken maybe what he was about till years had passed. At first, he

thought o’ little, I dare say, but the queerness and the fun.” The “Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border” is an echo of his rambles, and “The Lady of the Lake,” a “labor of love” in memory of Loch Katrine.

All of his interests widened rapidly; society,

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