Excerpt from The Entail Ther of Claud the taste for adventure that induced him to embark in the ill fated expedition. These, however, were not so congenial to the less sanguine tem perament of the son, who early preferred the history of Whittington and his Cat to the achievements of Sir William Wal laae; and Tak your auld cloak about you, ever seemed to him a thousand times more sensible than Chevy Chace. AS for that doleful ditty, the Flowers of the Forest, it was worse than the Babes in the Wood; and Gil Morrice more wearisome than Death and the Lady. 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.