Excerpt from The Camerons of BruceIt was during one of those Sunday rambles over the old farmstead - those rambles so redolent of fragrant memories to every boy of farm rearing - that Simon first mentioned an important duty that fate had reserved for me. I was but twelve years old at the time, but I can recall the earnestness of my guardian's dark grey eyes and the tremulous fervor of his voice as he placed his hands upon my shoulders, and, gazing steadfastly into my face as if he would read my soul, said: "Lachlan, my man" (he always called me Lachlan when he was very serious, he and everybody else called me "Lachy" on other occasions) - "Lachlan, my man, I'm proud to observe that ye give promise of becoming a braw, strapping man, and faith, lad, ye'll need to be, for ye have a mission to accomplish when ye're growed up that'll mayhap tax yer powers and yer strength beyond the usual demands. Nature and justice alike require that ye shall act when the time comes, to say nothing of yer faither's dying injuction."About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.