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    The Wee Scotch Piper
    The Wee Scotch Piper
    The Wee Scotch Piper
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    The Wee Scotch Piper

    By Madeline Brandeis

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Wee Scotch Piper - Madeline Brandeis

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Wee Scotch Piper, by Madeline Brandeis

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: The Wee Scotch Piper

      Author: Madeline Brandeis

      Release Date: September 4, 2012 [EBook #40664]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WEE SCOTCH PIPER ***

      Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Colin M. Kendall and the

      Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      The Wee Scotch Piper

      THE WEE SCOTCH PIPER

      The WEE SCOTCH PIPER

      BY

      MADELINE BRANDEIS

      Producer of the Motion Pictures

      The Little Indian Weaver

      The Wee Scotch Piper

      The Little Dutch Tulip Girl

      The Little Swiss Wood-Carver

      Distributed by Pathé Exchange, Inc., New York City

      Photographic Illustrations made in Scotland by the Author

      GROSSET & DUNLAP

      PUBLISHERS      NEW YORK

      by arrangement with the A. Flanagan Company

      COPYRIGHT, 1929, BY A. FLANAGAN COMPANY

      PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      PREFACE

      When I began to write these stories about children of all lands I had just returned from Europe whither I journeyed with Marie and Ref. Maybe you don't know Marie and Ref. I'll introduce them: Please meet Marie, my very little daughter, and Ref, my very big reflex camera.

      These two are my helpers. Marie helps by being a little girl who knows what other little girls like and by telling me; and Ref helps by snapping pictures of everything interesting that Marie and I see on our travels. I couldn't get along without them.

      Several years have gone by since we started our work together and Marie is a bigger girl—but Ref hasn't changed one bit. Ref hasn't changed any more than my interest in writing these books for you. And I hope that you hope that I'll never change, because I want to keep on writing until we'll have no more countries to write about—unless, of course, some one discovers a new country.

      Even if a new country isn't discovered, we'll find foreign children to talk about—maybe the children in Mars! Who knows? Nobody. Not even Marie—and Marie usually knows about most things. That's the reason why, you see, though I sign myself

      I am really only

      Marie's Mother.

      DEDICATION

      To every child of every land,

      Little sister, little brother,

      As in this book your lives unfold,

      May you learn to love each other.

      CONTENTS

      THE SOUND OF HIS PIPES ECHOED BACK THROUGH THE GLEN

      The Wee Scotch Piper

      CHAPTER I

      THE CRAIG FAMILY

      In the wee village of Aberfoyle, which is in Perthshire County, Scotland, lived Alan Craig, a shepherd.

      The sheep of Scotland, like the bagpipes and bluebells, are famous, and in Aberfoyle there are many.

      Dotted alongside the road are the bright bluebells, lighting up in true fairy array the darkness made by big, shady trees.

      Shrieking through the stillness of a summer evening, comes the sound of the bagpipes. This music is furnished by a tattered piper marching up and down, up and down. He hopes that the people will throw pennies for the love of the tune he plays.

      And the sheep, like little dots of white in the green meadows, graze. But sometimes, they, too, shriek when they are herded together, perhaps for the clipping.

      When the sheep all bleat together, it sounds very much like the shrieking of the bagpipes. Maybe that is how the bagpipe was really started. Perhaps the sound was first uttered by a herd of Scotch sheep!

      It was not yet clipping time on the small farm of Alan Craig. His sheep still roamed the hills. Their heavy, curly wool weighed them down and made them look as if they had on long, woollen nighties.

      The babies sometimes walked right under their mothers, and then they were completely hidden.

      SCOTLAND IS FULL OF SHEEP

      On a hill sat Alan Craig, and by his side his faithful dog, Roy. Roy was a real sheep dog and was proud of his profession.

      You know, when people are called professionals, it means that they are trained in one occupation. Of course, people make money at their professions, and this was the only difference between Roy and a professional human.

      Roy was a professional

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