The Authorship Of Waverley
Mrs. Murray Keith, a venerable Scotch lady, from whom Sir Walter Scott
derived many of the traditionary stories and anecdotes wrought up in
his novels, taxed him one day with the authorship, which he, as usual,
stoutly denied. "What!" exclaimed the old lady, "d'ye think I dinna ken
my ain groats among other folk's kail?"
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