Before "Peter Pan" came "The Little Minister", J.M. Barrie's first published novel. This is not a children's book, but reflections on life in a remote village in Scotland. The story opens with the minister and his mother moving into the village of Thrums, where the minister must earn the respect of the villagers, threading his way through class differences, politics and suspicion of the travelling gypsies. But what would happen if the newly respectable minister of Thrums fell in love with a gypsy woman? And how will her secret impact upon them all? (Summary by Beth Thomas)
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END of recording
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Thank you for updating for my claim. I have a little problem with some text and was hoping you could give a suggestion - or anything.
The typos created by Gutenburg's optical reading process are usually pretty easy to figure out, but this one's got me stumped. Here's the phrase with the sentence surrounding it:
On the east coast of Scotland, hidden, as if in a quarry, at the foot of cliffs that may one day fall forward, is a village called Harvie. So has it shrunk since the day whffi'Q I skniisied from it that I hear of a traveller's asking lately at one of its doors how far he was from a village;
Now, I think "whffi'Q" is "when" - but I'm just stumped on the last word of what I think is a 3-word phrase. From context it seems like it would be a word about leave-taking. Any input you could give would be helpful.
Cancel that call for suggestions/assistance. I can't believe I found a source the had the true text.
Google has the book listed and the Google page has a search for common words and phrases within the book. I entered "Harvie", the name of the town he was describing, and there it was, the true phrase is ""when I skulked". I never would've figure out the word "skulked".
[I'm not the regular Book Coordinator (BC) for this project, but I am covering for her while she's off line.]
I've added your claim to the Magic Window (MW). You now have a reader page. If you would like your catalog name to be changed, or to add a personal website, just let me know. https://librivox.org/reader/11637
If you have any questions, please just post. We have all been new at some point and you'll find lots of great folks around here, ready to help you quickly move up the learning curve!
I understand that instruction you mentioned, but how can I stick to reading from the Gutenberg text when the text is so screwed up by the optical reader that there literally is no word to read? Did you see what was in the quote I provided? I figure it's just like translating from gibberish to standard English. And anyway, it's only oneword. Not like I'm a heretic or something.
I believe I need to apologize, and I am sorry I so completely misunderstood your reminder. I did not realize at all that I was using the Gutenberg text (I don't remember how I got there) in error when the link you pointed out to me takes one to a Google microopaque image of the full book. There are no problems with gibberish in the microopaque rendering, and so that solves that problem.
