The Daft Days

The Daft Days

Mr Andrew Lang says: In The Lost Pibroch we meet genius as obvious and undeniable as that of Mr Kipling. Mr Munros powers are directed to old Highland life, and he does what genius alone can dohe makes it alive again, and makes our imagination share its lifehis knowledge being copious, original, at first hand. More than a good story. It is a downright good book, realistic, powerful, and effective, absolutely perfect in its picturing of the simple, sturdy seafolk of Uist and the Outer Isles of the West.Daily Telegraph. The towns bell rang through the dark of the winter morning with queer little jolts and pauses, as if Wanton Wully Oliver, the ringer, had been jovial the night before. A blithe New-Year-time bell; a droll, daft, scatter-brained bell; it gave no horrid alarums, no solemn reminders that commonly toll from steeples and make good-fellows melancholy to think upon things undone, the brevity of days and years, the parting of good company, but a cheery dittyboom, boom, ding-a-dong boom, boom ding, hic, ding-dong, infecting whoever heard it with a kind of foolish gaiety. The burgh town turned on its pillows, drew up its feet from the bed-bottles, last night hot, now turned to chilly stone, rubbed its eyes, and knew by that bell it was the daftest of the daft days come. It cast a merry spell on the community; it tickled them even in their cosy beds. Wanton Wullys on the ran-dan! said the folk, and rose quickly, and ran to pull aside screens and blinds to look out in the dark on window-ledges cushioned deep in snow. The children hugged themselves under the blankets, and told each other in whispers it was not a porridge morning, no, nor Sunday, but a breakfast of shortbread, ham and eggs; and behold! a beautiful loud drum, careless as twere a reveille of hot wild youths, p. 2began to beat in a distant lane. Behind the house of Dyce the lawyer, a cock that must have been young and hearty crew like to burst; and at the stables of the post-office the man who housed his horses after bringing the morning mail through night and storm from a distant railway station sang a song, ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 49906
Author: Munro, Neil
Release Date: Sep 7, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English