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Excerpt from The Life of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. 5
His first considerable communication, after he had formed the unselfish determination above-mentioned, consisted of a collection of anecdotes concerning the Galloway gypsies, and a local story of an astrologer, who calling at a farmhouse at the moment when the goodwife was in travail, had, it was said, pre dicted the future fortune of the child, almost in the words placed in the mouth of John m'kinlay, in the Introduction to Guy Mannering.' Scott told him, in reply, that the story of the astrologer reminded him of one he had heard in his youth that is to say, as the Introduction explains, from this m'kinlay; but Mr. Train has, since his friend's death, recovered a rude Durham ballad, which in fact contains a great deal more of the main fable of Guy Mannering than either his own written, or m'kinlay's oral edition of the Gallovidian anecdote had conveyed; and, - possessing, as I do, numberless evidences of the haste with which Scott drew up his beautiful Prefaces and Introductions of 1829, 1830.
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