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This is an account from old copies of the Celtic Magazine which we've extracted to provide you with the whole story.
The Preface says...
THE sketches which are to follow under this title were written a considerable while ago by a Highlander, who, during a period of convalescence from a troublesome rather than a dangerous illness in England, called up the recollections of his youth, and attempted to describe as faithfully as he could the life, customs, and history of an old glen community, just before it was inundated by the waves of modern changes. Reality is only thinly veiled by fictional characters, and the slight permeating thread of story developed itself spontaneously. As it was thought the period described was then too near, the sketches when finished were left unpublished; but some years ago portions of them, translated into Gaelic, appeared in the Northern Chronicle, and seemed to be so much appreciated that the author feels now encouraged to give the whole original manuscript, without material alterations.
We have the first chapter up now which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/longglenndx.htm
Alastair
The Preface says...
THE sketches which are to follow under this title were written a considerable while ago by a Highlander, who, during a period of convalescence from a troublesome rather than a dangerous illness in England, called up the recollections of his youth, and attempted to describe as faithfully as he could the life, customs, and history of an old glen community, just before it was inundated by the waves of modern changes. Reality is only thinly veiled by fictional characters, and the slight permeating thread of story developed itself spontaneously. As it was thought the period described was then too near, the sketches when finished were left unpublished; but some years ago portions of them, translated into Gaelic, appeared in the Northern Chronicle, and seemed to be so much appreciated that the author feels now encouraged to give the whole original manuscript, without material alterations.
We have the first chapter up now which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/longglenndx.htm
Alastair