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The Life of Mansie Wauch, by David Macbeth
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Title: The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
Author: David Macbeth Moir
Release Date: December 10, 2007 [eBook #20767]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LIFE OF MANSIE WAUCH***
Transcribed from the 1845 William Blackwood and Sons edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
THE LIFE OF MANSIE WAUCH TAILOR IN DALKEITH WRITTEN BY HIMSELF
A NEW EDITION
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON M.DCCC.XLV
TO JOHN GALT, ESQ. AUTHOR OF "THE ANNALS OF THE PARISH," "THE PROVOST," "THE AYRSHIRE LEGATEES," &c. &c. &c. THE FOLLOWING SKETCHES, PRINCIPALLY OF HUMBLE SCOTTISH CHARACTER, ARE DEDICATED, BY HIS SINCERE FRIEND AND ADMIRER, THE EDITOR.
ADVERTISEMENT.
Between the first and last genuine Editions of the following biography, it has been repeatedly reprinted both in America and France; and portions of it, pirated in the shape of cheap pamphlets, have, for two or three years bypast, formed a staple article of commerce with the Peripatetic Bibliopoles in this country. Popularity to an author must be always gratifying; but it were well that it came through the proper channel