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Excerpt from Memorials of James Hogg: The Ettrick Shepherd James hogg was very much' what we might expect from his robust peasant ancestry, and the shaping circumstances of his early life and surroundings. Physically, he was a healthy man all round, knew nothing of the ailments of sedentary or dyspeptic authors, had an unfailing ow of animal spirits, loved all out-door life - walking, fishing, shooting, curling. This temperament and these habits helped him more than anything else, to bear up during a chequered life, under the pressure of adverse cir cumstances, which would have sunk most men in despair. 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.