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Excerpt from Mr. Wind and Madam Rain You must know, my dear children, that there was once upon a time in Scotland an old blind man, with beard of silvery whiteness, named Ossian, who played exceedingly well upon the harp, and who went about the streets singing songs of his own composing. His father, whose name was Fingal, had been a great warrior; and therefore Ossian loved most of all to sing the exploits of his great warlike sire. When Ossian was dead, other bards continued to chant his poems, and so it has come to pass that his productions have come down to our time. Oth er verses, however, were added by these bards to those of Ossian; so that, as some sang the deeds of the great warrior in one way, and oth ers in another, it became at length impossible to trace the real history of the great Fingal. 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.