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THE STANDARD BEARER
BOOKS BY S. R. CROCKETT.
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Uniform edition. Each, 12 mo. Cloth, $1.50.
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Lads’ Love.
Illustrated.
In this fresh and charming story, which in some respects recalls “TheLilac Sunbonnet,” Mr. Crockett returns to Galloway and pictures thehumor and pathos of the life which he knows so well.
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Cleg Kelly, Arab of the City.
His Progress and Adventures.
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“A masterpiece which Mark Twain himself has never rivaled.... If everthere was an ideal character in fiction it is this heroicragamuffin.”—London Daily Chronicle.
“In no one of his books does Mr. Crockett give us a brighter or moregraphic picture of contemporary Scotch life than in ‘Cleg Kelly.’ It isone of the great books.”—Boston Advertiser.
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Bog-Myrtle and Peat.
“Here are idyls, epics, dramas of human life written in words thatthrill and burn.... All are set down in words that are fit, chaste, andnoble. Each is a poem that has the immortal flavor.”—Boston Courier.
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The Lilac Sunbonnet.
“A love story pure and simple—one of the old-fashioned, wholesome,sunshiny kind, with a pure-minded, sound-hearted hero, and a heroine whois merely a good and beautiful woman; and if any other love story halfso sweet has been written this year it has escaped our notice.”—NewYork Times.
New York: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.
THE STANDARD BEARER
BY

S.   R.   CROCKETT

AUTHOR OF
THE LILAC SUNBONNET, BOG-MYRTLE AND PEAT,
CLEG KELLY, LADS’ LOVE, THE RAIDERS, ETC.

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NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1898


Copyright, 1897, 1898,
By S. R. CROCKETT.


GRATEFULLY AND RESPECTFULLY

I DEDICATE

TO THE GOOD AND KINDLY FOLK

OF MY NATIVE PARISH OF BALMAGHIE

THIS RENDERING OF

STRANGE HAPPENINGS AMONG THEIR FOREBEARS,

OF WHICH THEY HAVE

NOT YET QUITE LOST THE MEMORY.
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THE FOREWORD.
A book iron-grey and chill is this that I have written, the tale oftimes when the passions of men were still working like a yeasty seaafter the storms of the Great Killing. If these pages should chance tobe read when the leaves                        
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