Excerpt from The Starling, Vol. 2: A Scotch Story The last to enter, as the sun Was setting, was John, the eldest, a lad of about fourteen, the very picture of a pure-eyed, ruddy - complexioned, healthy, and happy lad. He had left school to assist his father in attending to his duties. 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.