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Title: The Courts of the Morning
Date of first publication: 1929
Author: John Buchan (1875-1940)
Date first posted: Mar. 22, 2017
Date last updated: Mar. 22, 2017
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BOOKS BY
JOHN BUCHAN
_The Thirty-Nine Steps_
_Greenmantle_
_Mr Standfast_
_The Path of the King_
_Huntingtower_
_Midwinter_
_The Three Hostages_
_John Macnab_
_The Dancing Floor_
_Witch Wood_
_The Runagates Club_
_The Courts of the Morning_
_Castle Gay_
_The Blanket of the Dark_
_The Gap in the Curtain_
_A Prince of the Captivity_
_The Free Fishers_
_also_
_The Half-hearted_
_The Moon Endureth_
HODDER AND
STOUGHTON
LTD., LONDON
THE COURTS
OF THE
MORNING
BY
JOHN BUCHAN
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LIMITED LONDON
FIRST PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 1929
REPRINTED SEPTEMBER 1929
REPRINTED OCTOBER 1929
REPRINTED OCTOBER 1929
REPRINTED NOVEMBER 1929
REPRINTED DECEMBER 1929
REPRINTED DECEMBER 1929
REPRINTED JANUARY 1931
REPRINTED DECEMBER 1934
_Made and Printed in Great Britain._
_Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ltd., London and Aylesbury._
DEDICATION
TO
FERRIS GREENSLET
OF
Ipswich, Massachusetts
_The trout that haunts the Beaverkill_
_Will flick the same sarcastic tail,_
_When badly struck, as him my skill_
_Would vainly lure from Tweed or Kale._
_The same old tremor of the Spring_
_Assails the heart of you and me;_
_Nor does the reel less blithely ring_
_By Willowemoc than by Dee._
_As bright the Ammonoosuc streams_
_Dance through their silent scented woods_
_As those which fill my waking dreams_
_In Hebridean solitudes._
_Your land, old friend, is one with mine,_
_Whate’er may hap from time or tide,_
_While, with St. Izaak the Divine,_
_We worship at the waterside._
CONTENTS
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PROLOGUE 9
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