Name: Salute to Adventurers
Author: John Buchan
ISBN: 9781598187908

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Salute to Adventurers

By John Buchan 20 Aug, 2021

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When I was a child in short-coats a spaewife came to the town-end, and for a silver groat paid by my mother she riddled my fate. It came to little, being no more than that I should miss love and fortune in the sunlight and find them in the rain. The ... Read more

When I was a child in short-coats a spaewife came to the town-end, and for a silver groat paid by my mother she riddled my fate. It came to little, being no more than that I should miss love and fortune in the sunlight and find them in the rain. The woman was a haggard, black-faced gipsy, and when my mother asked for more she turned on her heel and spoke gibberish; for which she was presently driven out of the place by Tarn Roberton, the baillie, and the village dogs. But the thing stuck in my memory, and together with the fact that I was a Thursday's bairn, and so, according to the old rhyme, "had far to go," convinced me long ere I had come to man's estate that wanderings and surprises would be my portion.

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John Buchan

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John Buchan, GCMG GCVO CH PC DL (26 Aug 1875 – 11 Feb 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor-General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederatio...

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