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The Book-Hunter (fiscle Part-11) A New Edition, With A Memoir Of The Author
By: John Hill Burton
User: silviya
_Parentage--Patons--Grandholm--Jersey--"Peninsular War"--School And
Schoolmasters--Flogging--College--Competition For Bursaries--Home
Life--Aunt And Grand-Aunt--Holiday Rambles--Letter._
John Hill Burton, The Subject Of This Notice, Was Born On The 22D Of
August 1809, In the Gallowgate Of Aberdeen. He Was Wont To Style
Himself, As In his Childhood He Had Heard Himself Described, "The Last
Of The Gallowgate Bairns;" The Gallowgate Being an Old Part Of Aberdeen
Devoted Chiefly To Humble Trade, No One, In modern Times At Least, Even
Distantly Connected With Gentility Living there.
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