{"product_id":"2940013400993","title":"A MINSTREL IN FRANCE","description":"CHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYon days! Yon palmy, peaceful days! I go back to them, and they are\u003cbr\u003eas a dream. I go back to them again and again, and live them over.\u003cbr\u003eYon days of another age, the age of peace, when no man dared even to\u003cbr\u003edream of such times as have come upon us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was in November of 1913, and I was setting forth upon a great\u003cbr\u003ejourney, that was to take me to the other side of the world before I\u003cbr\u003ecame back again to my wee hoose amang the heather at Dunoon. My wife\u003cbr\u003ewas going with me, and my brother-in-law, Tom Valiance, for they go\u003cbr\u003eeverywhere with me. But my son John was coming with us only to\u003cbr\u003eGlasgow, and then, when we set out for Liverpool and the steamer that\u003cbr\u003ewas to bring us to America he was to go back to Cambridge. He was\u003cbr\u003enear done there, the bonnie laddie. He had taken his degree as\u003cbr\u003eBachelor of Arts, and was to set out soon upon a trip around the\u003cbr\u003eworld.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWas that no a fine plan I had made for my son? That great voyage he\u003cbr\u003ewas to have, to see the world and all its peoples! It was proud I was\u003cbr\u003ethat I could give it to him. He was--but it may be I'll tell you more\u003cbr\u003eof John later in this book!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy pen runs awa' with me, and my tongue, too, when I think of my boy\u003cbr\u003eJohn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe came to the pier at Dunoon, and there she lay, the little ferry\u003cbr\u003esteamer, the black smoke curling from her stack straight up to God.\u003cbr\u003eAh, the braw day it was! There was a frosty sheen upon the heather,\u003cbr\u003eand the Clyde was calm as glass. The tops of the hills were coated\u003cbr\u003ewith snow, and they stood out against the horizon like great big\u003cbr\u003esugar loaves.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070022500592,"sku":"2940013400993","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013400993_p0.jpg?v=1763580407","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013400993","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}