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Firkin and the Grey Gangsters is a collection of four tales in which animals are the heroes. Firkin and the Grey Gangsters was in 1936 a metaphor for the fear of takeover by corporate America – Firkin is a young red squirrel who leads his people in a battle against a horde of grey squirrel invaders from America. Firkin speaks in Scots. The Sheep who wasn’t a Sheep is about the thoughts going through the head of a sheep, swimming between one Outer Isle and the other. The White Drake is a farmyard drake in Perthshire learning about flying.

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"""It argues against convention and for freedom, against respectability and for bohemianism, against stale compromise and for the win open beauty of the Highland countryside."" --Dr. Nick Campbell"

It argues against convention and for freedom, against respectability and for bohemianism, against stale compromise and for the win open beauty of the Highland countryside. --Dr. Nick Campbell

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ANN SCOTT MONCRIEFF was born in Orkney in 1910 and died in Nairn in 1943. During her short life she was a journalist, writer and a poet who was immortalized by Edwin Muir in his poem ‘To Ann’. This is a republication for school-age children of a neglected, talented Scottish female writer of the 1930s.

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