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the Border Marches, by John Lang and Jean Lang
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Title: Stories of the Border Marches
Author: John Lang and Jean Lang
Release Date: December 22, 2004 [EBook #14416]
Language: English
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STORIES OF THE BORDER MARCHES
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BY JOHN LANG AND JEAN LANG
LONDON: T.C. & E.C. JACK LTD. 67 LONG ACRE, W.C., AND EDINBURGH
1916
PREFACE
The quotation that speaks of "Old, unhappy, far-off things, and battles long ago," has grown now to be hackneyed. Yet, are not they those "old, unhappy, far-off things" that lure us back from a very commonplace and utilitarian present, and cause us to cling to the romance of stories that are well-nigh forgotten?
In these days of rushing railway journeys, of motor cars, telegrams, telephones, and aeroplanes, we are apt to lose sight of the tales of more leisurely times, when lumbering stage-coaches and relays of willing horses were our only means of transit from one kingdom to the other.
Because the "long ago" means to us so infinitely valuable a possession, we have striven to preserve in print a