Excerpt from Shetland Fireside Tales: Or the Hermit of Trosswickness
The Author of the following pages spent the earlier and happier years of his life amongst the peasant youth of his native islands, sharing with them the perils and pleasures of their daring and manly sports by sea and shore - the gun, the oar, and the cragsman's rope being the familiar and appropriate playthings of those earlier years. Happy years, when the long summer days, separated only by a brief twilight, were ever too short to accomplish all that youthful enterprise could plan; and the long winter nights never long enough to tell all the fairy tales, legends, and ghost stories which inspired with pleasure or fear the hearts of youthful listeners.
The impression which those wild legends and fascinating fairy tales of a bygone age made upon the Author's youthful imagination, has not been lessened by time, but rather deepened as maturer years presented the subject to his mind, not merely as a childish pastime, but as a mirror in which are reflected, more or less distinctly, the habits, thoughts, and feelings of past generations.
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