Amador Ledger-Dispatch, 20 May 1904 — Scott Was Rated aa a Dance. [ARTICLE]

Scott Was Rated aa a Dance.

As a boy Walter Scott gave few indications of his coming greatness and was described by. one of his early preceptors as "the boy that has the thickest skull In the school." Afterward at Edinburgh university the future "wizard" was thus epitomized by one of the leading professors: "Dunce he is, and dunce he will remain."