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Title: Lavengro
The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

Author: George Borrow

Release Date: December 28, 2009 [eBook #30792]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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Transcribed from the 1914 T. N. Foulis edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

[Picture: As I read over the lives of these robbers and pickpockets]

LAVENGRO
THE SCHOLAR, THE
GYPSY, THE PRIEST

BY GEORGE BORROW

WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

BY EDMUND J. SULLIVAN

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T. N. FOULIS, PUBLISHER
LONDON, EDINBURGH & BOSTON

_Published November 1914_

* * * * *

Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO.
at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh

PREFACE

In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe a dream, partly of
study, partly of adventure, in which will be found copious notices of
books, and many descriptions of life and manners, some in a very unusual
form.

The scenes of action lie in the British Islands;--pray be not displeased,
gentle reader, if perchance thou hast imagined that I was about to
conduct thee to distant lands, and didst promise thyself much instruction
and entertainment from what I might tell thee of them. I do assure thee
that thou hast no reason to be displeased, inasmuch as there are no
countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame
British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring,
whether in road or street, house or dingle.

The time embraces nearly the first quarter of the present century: this
information again may, perhaps, be anything but agreeable to thee; it is
a long time to revert to, but fret not thyself, many matters which at
present much occupy