Excerpt from Lawrie Todd, or the Settlers in the Woods Those who have judged my works of fiction, relative to the Scotch and Scottish history, as mere novels, have not done me quite justice. My endeavour has been to make such as are historical illustrative of the manners, the circumstances, and the characters of the ages to which the transactions belong; but if the Object has not been so Obvious as anticipated, still, if correct, it may be at last acknowledged. I have, doubtlessly, wasted my time in writing other books that do not deserve much approbation but in all my works there has been a constant drawmg from nature not altogether unsuccessful. The selection of models may not have been always judicious, in the opinion of my readers, but the truth and the resemblance have never been equivocal to myself. 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.