Martin Rattler

"MARTIN RATTLER" was one of, Robert Michael Ballantyne’s early books. Born at Edinburgh in 1825,[1] he was sent to Rupert’s Land as a trading–clerk in the Hudson Bay Fur Company’s service when he left school, a boy of sixteen. There, to relieve his home–sickness, he first practised his pen in long letters home to his mother. Soon after his return to Scotland in 1848 he published a first book on Hudson’s Bay. Then he passed some years in a Scottish publisher’s office; and in 1855 a