Description:Excerpt from The Story of John G. Paton: Told for Young Folks, or Thirty Years Among South Sea CannibalsMY early days were all spent in the beautiful county of Dumfries, which Scotch folks call the Queen of the South. There, in a small cottage, on the farm of Brae head, in the parish of Kirkmahoe, I was born on the 24th May, 1824. My father, James Paton, was a stock ing manufacturer in a small way; and he and his young wife, Janet J ardine Rogerson, lived on terms of warm personal friendship with the gentleman farmer, so they gave me his son's name, John Gibson and the curly-haired child of the cottage was soon able to tod dle across to the mansion, and became a great pet of the lady there. On my visit to Scotland in 1884. I drove out to Braehead; but we found no cottage, nor trace of a cottage, and amused ourselves by supposing that we could discover by the rising of the grassy mound, the outline where the foundations once had been!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Story of John G. Paton, Told for Young Folks, or, Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals. To get started finding The Story of John G. Paton, Told for Young Folks, or, Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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The Story of John G. Paton, Told for Young Folks, or, Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals
Description: Excerpt from The Story of John G. Paton: Told for Young Folks, or Thirty Years Among South Sea CannibalsMY early days were all spent in the beautiful county of Dumfries, which Scotch folks call the Queen of the South. There, in a small cottage, on the farm of Brae head, in the parish of Kirkmahoe, I was born on the 24th May, 1824. My father, James Paton, was a stock ing manufacturer in a small way; and he and his young wife, Janet J ardine Rogerson, lived on terms of warm personal friendship with the gentleman farmer, so they gave me his son's name, John Gibson and the curly-haired child of the cottage was soon able to tod dle across to the mansion, and became a great pet of the lady there. On my visit to Scotland in 1884. I drove out to Braehead; but we found no cottage, nor trace of a cottage, and amused ourselves by supposing that we could discover by the rising of the grassy mound, the outline where the foundations once had been!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Story of John G. Paton, Told for Young Folks, or, Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals. To get started finding The Story of John G. Paton, Told for Young Folks, or, Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.