111:'s press it attracted the attention of Sir Walter Scott, who was especially interested in the "notes illustrative of traditions in Galloway and Ayrshire", and immediately wrote to Train asking to be included in the list of subscribers for eleven copies. After perusing the volume on its publication he also expressed to Train his appreciation of it, and more especially of the notes on old traditions; and requested him to communicate to him any "matters of that order" which he did not himself think of using. Train had already, with Captain James Denniston, begun to collect materials for a "History of Galloway", but from this time "he renounced every idea of authorship for himself", and resolved that "henceforth his chief pursuit should be collecting whatever he thought would be interesting" to Scott. Scott's obligations to him, which were very great, are acknowledged in different prefaces and notes.
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54:, having seen the volumes in the bookseller's shop previous to their delivery, wished to purchase them, and, on being told that they had already been subscribed for by one of his own men, was so much pleased that he gave orders to have them handsomely rebound and sent to Train free of charge. Some time after the regiment was disbanded, he obtained for Train an agency for a manufacturing house in Glasgow, and in 1806–7 an appointment as supernumerary
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