Scottish jests and anecdotes, collected by R. Chambers. (Nuggets for travellers). - Softcover

9781231218679: Scottish jests and anecdotes, collected by R. Chambers. (Nuggets for travellers).
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ... was a distinguished humourist, had now great difficulty in preserving his gravity; and, finding farther remonstrance vain, he at last fairly capitulated with the enemy, and agreed to grant him his own terms, and to let him march off with all the honours of wai. AN EDIFYING SERMON. Mr Johnston, minister of the parish of Lyne and Megget, was a man of a singular character. The two parishes, which are twenty miles distant, are very thinly inhabited, both containing only 160 souls. In winter, Mr Johnston used to assemble the few that could attend, being so widely scattered, in his own kitchen, and set down before them a bottle or two of whisky, saying, 'Ye'll no be the waur o' a wee drap o' that, as this is an unco cauld day, an' ye hae a gaye bit till gang; joost tak an administer every ane o' ye to ye're ain necessity.' They accordingly handed the bottle round, every one taking as much as he thought his necessity required, as the minister thought a glass wholly unnecessary. It is needless to say, the congregation were greatly edified. PROPER PRECAUTION. One night, as a great number of lads and lasses were holding what Burns calls 'a rocking,' in the house of a weaver at Paisley, the conversation happened to turn on a set of depredators, who had lately taken away a great number of out-of-door articles during the night, and to guard against whom it was now necessary to take every possible precaution. When the conversation was at that crisis, an aged bed-rid grandfather of the family, whose voice had not been heard the whole night, rose like a ghost in his bed, his mind seriously disturbed by fears for the safety of an immense disabled cast-iron pot, which had lain for years useless in the court. 'I'll tell thee what, Eppie,' lie said to his daughter-in-law, in ...

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  • PublisherRarebooksclub.com
  • Publication date2012
  • ISBN 10 1231218673
  • ISBN 13 9781231218679
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages62

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