Excerpt from My Ducats and My Daughter, Vol. 1 of 3 N 0 one deplored Mr. Lynn's perversity more bitterly than his brother-in-law, Mr. Peter Ingleby. This gentleman was the proprietor of a dye-work, which daily empurpled the stream on whose banks Shawkirk is situated. Mr. Ingleby was not by comparison rich. He had, moreover, a growing family; whereas Mr. Lynn had but one child, and was a widower. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.