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‘Two Drovers, The’

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | 533 words | Copyright

‘Two Drovers, The’, a short story by Sir W. Scott, one of the Chronicles of the Canongate, published 1827. The tragedy is constructed round an opposition of racial types, Highland and Lowland. A trivial quarrel occurs between Robin Oig M'Combich and Harry Wakefield, longstanding companions on the drove-roads. Wakefield wants to settle it with his fists, English-fashion; Robin Oig rejects this as beneath the dignity of a Highland gentleman. He is knocked down by his friend and in revenge kills him with his dirk.

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