John Cheap, the Chapman's Library. Vol. 1: Comic and Humorous: The Scottish Chap Literature of Last Century, ClassifiedGraham, Dougal
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John Cheap, the Chapman's Library. Vol. 1: Comic and Humorous: The Scottish Chap Literature of Last Century, Classified
Graham, Dougal
Chapbooks, Scottish; English literature -- 18th century; Graham, Dougal, 1724-1779; Popular literature -- Scotland
MARK ME WELL.
A gentleman having missed his way, fortunately overtook a boy
going with a pot of tar to mark his master’s sheep, asked the road
to Banff, but was directed by so many turnings, right and left,
that he agreed to take the boy behind him on the horse, as he was
going near to the same place. Finding the boy pert and docile, he
gave him some wholesome advice relative to his future conduct,
adding occasionally, “Mark me well, my boy.”--“Yes, Sir, I do.” He
repeated the injunction so often, that the boy at last cried out,
“Sir, I have no more tar!”
SCOTTISH ATMOSPHERE.
An English Gentleman on a tour through Scotland, was unfortunately
accompanied by wet weather most of the time. When he set out from
Glasgow to Greenock, the morning was very fine; however, before he
had proceeded half way, he was overtaken by a heavy shower. “Boy,”
(says he to a little fellow herding near the road side) “does it
always rain in this country!” “Na,” replied the boy, “it sometimes
snaws.”
LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.
A master tailor in Glasgow, lately reading the News-papers to his
family, and when expressing the title, Liberty of the Press in
France, one of his daughters interrupted him, by asking what the
Liberty of the Press meaned? “I’ll soon answer that question,” said
he; “you know when your mother goes but, and leaves the key in the
cupboard door, where the bread, butter, and sugar lies, then you
have access:--That’s the Liberty o’ the Press.”
RESTLESS HAGGIS.
Daft Will Callender, lived with his sister Babie, in Port-Glasgow:
Babie kept lodging house for Sailors. On Saturday night Babie was
making a Haggis, for Sunday’s dinner, when one of her lodgers put
four ounce of quicksilver into the Haggis, unknown to Babie. On
Sunday, Will was left at home to cook the dinner; but when the pot
began to boil, the Haggis would be out of the pot; Will faithful
to his charges held the lid on the pot until his patience was
exhausted--at last Will ran off to the church for Babie; she sat
on one of the back pews; Will beckoned to her two or three times,
Babie as often nodded and winked to Will to be quiet; at last he
bawled out, “Babie come hame, for I believe the deil’s got into the
Haggis, it’ll no bide in the pat, it’s out dancing on the floor,
and if I had not locked the door, I think it would have been at the
kirk as soon’s mysel.”
THE KELLOCHSYDE GRACE.
The following is preserved traditionally as the grace of the farmer
of Kellochsyde or Killocsyde, in Clydesdale:--O Lord, we’r ay
gangan, and we’r ay gettan. We soud ay be cuman to thee, but we’r
ay forgettan. We leive in the gude mailen o’ Kellochsyde, suppan
thy gude peisie kale, puir sinfou sons of ---- that we are. Monie
mercies we receive, gude trowth: and we’r little thankfou for
them, gude feth. Janet, rax by the spunes; and aw praise and glory
sall be thine. Amen.
PATRIMONY AND MATRIMONY.
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