Excerpt from The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Vol. 27: Tales of a Grandfather My Dear Boy, I must no longer treat you as a child; so I now lay aside the pet appellation of Hugh Littlejohn, Esq., and address you by your name. Heaven, at whose pleasure we receive good and evil - and we are bound to receive both with thanks and gratitude - has afflicted you from infancy with a delicacy of constitution. With this misfortune there are often connected tastes and habits the most valuable any man can acquire, but which are indispensable to those who are liable, from indifferent health, to be occasionally confined to the solitude of their own apartment. 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.