David Elginbrod

David Elginbrod [with accents]

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Title: David Elginbrod

Author: George MacDonald
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of the book. This list does not belong to the original work, but is
designed to help with the conversations in broad Scots found in this
work. A further explanation of this list can be found towards the end of
this document, preceding the word list.

There are two footnotes in this book which have been renumbered and
placed at the end of the work.

DAVID ELGINBROD.
by GEORGE MACDONALD, LL.D.

And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.
CHAUCER.

TO THE MEMORY OF LADY NOEL BYRON, THIS BOOK IS
DEDICATED, WITH A LOVE STRONGER THAN DEATH.

BOOK I.
TURRIEPUFFIT.
With him there was a Ploughman, was his brother.
A trewé swinker, and a good was he, Living in peace and perfect
charity. God loved he best with all his trewé heart, At allé timés, were
it gain or smart, And then his neighébour right as himselve.
CHAUCER.--Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.

CHAPTER I
.
THE FIR-WOOD.
Of all the flowers in the mead, Then love I roost these flowers white
and rede, Such that men callen daisies in our town.
I renne blithe As soon as ever the sun ginneth west, To see this flower,
how it will go to rest, For fear of night, so hateth she darkness; Her
cheer is plainly spread in the brightness Of the sunne, for there it will
unclose.
CHAUCER--Prologue to the Legend of Good Women.
"Meg! whaur are ye gaein' that get, like a wull shuttle? Come in to the
beuk."
Meg's mother stood at the cottage door, with arms akimbo and clouded
brow, calling through the boles of a little forest of fir-trees after her

daughter. One would naturally presume that the phrase she employed,
comparing her daughter's motions to those of a shuttle that had "gane
wull," or lost its way, implied that she was watching her as she
threaded her way through the trees. But although she could not see her,
the fir-wood was certainly the likeliest place for her daughter to be in;
and the figure she employed was not in the least inapplicable to Meg's
usual mode of wandering through the trees, that operation being
commonly performed in the most erratic manner possible. It was the
ordinary occupation of the first hour of almost every day of Margaret's
life. As soon as she woke in the morning, the