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The stories in this collection lovingly trace the lives of men and
women in north-east Scotland that are thrown into relief by moments
of change or crisis. Violet Jacob's characters struggle with the
burden of secret knowledge or forbidden desire against a landscape
that is both recognizably Scottish and yet also touched by the
presence of something "beyond the bounds of this present world," as
she describes it in one story. Jacob writes in clear, carefully
observed language that captures both the linguistic variety of her
characters and the often limited opportunities her characters must
face. In one notable story, a young woman must choose between
obedience to her miserly father or love for an unworthy suitor; in
another, a sailor back home in Angus weighs the benefits of a
land-bound life against the freedom of the seas. In each of the
stories in the volume, Jacob illuminates landscapes and lives
marked by what she elsewhere calls "the beauty of suggestion, the
glamour of the unseen, the half-guessed." Jacob's vivid imagery and
the precision of her language are not dimmed by time; the stories
in this volume will enthrall contemporary readers with their
portraits of places and individuals that appear so clearly crafted
that Jacob's "own country" on the page becomes as real to readers
as the real geographical places she describes.
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The Interloper
Violet Jacob
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R645
Discovery Miles 6 450
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++++ Sheep-stealers Violet Jacob Putnam, 1902
CONTENTS THE WIND FRAE THE BALTIC THE TRAMP TO THE TATTIE-DULIE
HALLOWEEN .... ADAM THE DAFT BIRD PRIDE KIRRIE THE END OT .... THE
KELPIE .... BALTIC STREET BAILIE BRUCE.... CHARLEWAYN .... THE
MUCKLE MOU . vii I 3 5 8 10 13 15 17 20 22 25 28 31 34 viii
CONTENTS THE GANGEREL THE TINKLERS BALOO THE BANKS O THE ESK THE
WISE-LIKE CHAP INVERQUHARITY FAUR-YE-WEEL . A YOUNG MANS SONG THE
SHADOWS . A WINTER PHANTASY MARSEY TOWN THE SEASONS IN ENGLISH All
these poems, with the exception of the last two in the book, have
appeared in Country Life, and I have to thank the editor for his
courteous permission to reproduce them. BONNIE JOANN AND OTHER
POEMS BONNIE JOANN WEVE stookit the hairst an were needin To
gaither it in, Syne, gin the morns dry, well be leadin An warkll
begin But noo Ill awa doon the braeside My lane, while I can Wha
kens wha hell meet by the wayside, My bonnie Joann East yonder, the
hairst-fields are hidin The sea frae my een, Gin ye keek whaur the
stooks are dividin Ye11 see it atween. Sae douce an sae still it
has sleepit Since hairst-time began Like my hert gin yed tak it an
keep it My bonnie Joann. 2 i BONNIE JOANN Owre a thing the shadows
gang trailin, Owre stubble an strae Frae the hedge to the fit o the
pailin They rax owre the way But the sun may gang through wi his
beamin An traivel his span, For aye, by the licht o my dreamhV, I
see ye, Joann. Awa frae ye, naebodys braver, Mair wise-like an
bauld, Aside ye, I hech an I haver, Im het an Im cauld But oh could
I tell wiout speakin The hert o a man, Ye micht find Im the lad
that ye re seekin, My bonnie Joann THE WIND FRAE THE BALTIC BELOW
the was, oot-by Montrose, The tides ca up an doon And monys the
gallant mairchantmanLies in aside the toon Oh, its fine alang the
tideway The loupin waters rin When the wind is frae the Baltic wi
the brigs comin in. Id gie the ring upon my hand To hide me frae
the sea That manes by nicht an cries by day The dule thats come to
me, For Ill hear nae mair the fit-fa When hame the brigs may win O
a man that sailed the Baltic, nor his step comin in. 3
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