Kidnapped - by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Kidnapped
- by Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped is an 1886 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. (US Edition)  (UK Edition)  

These editions are called “Dover Children's Evergreen Classics,” but this is well known as a children’s book read by adults.  It is probably the precocious child who reads Stevenson these days . . .

I asked him if he had ever heard tell of a house they called the house of Shaws.

He stopped his cart and looked at me, like the others.

"Ay" said he. "What for?"

"It's a great house?" I asked.

"Doubtless," says he. "The house is a big, muckle house."

"Ay," said I, "but the folk that are in it?"

"Folk?" cried he. "Are ye daft? There's nae folk there--to call folk."

"What?" say I; "not Mr. Ebenezer?"

"Ou, ay" says the man; "there's the laird, to be sure, if it's him you're wanting. What'll like be your business, mannie?"

"I was led to think that I would get a situation," I said, looking as modest as I could.

"What?" cries the carter, in so sharp a note that his very horse started; and then, "Well, mannie," he added, "it's nane of my affairs; but ye seem a decent-spoken lad; and if ye'll take a word from me, ye'll keep clear of the Shaws."

Yes, it is a mystery, and redolent with Scottish dialect.  You will probably have a burr in your voice when you have finished following the kidnapped protagonist on his journey home to reclaim his inheritance.

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