Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 43546-h.htm or 43546-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43546/43546-h/43546-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43546/43546-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://archive.org/details/ourlittlescotchc00mcma OUR LITTLE SCOTCH COUSIN * * * * * The Little Cousin Series Each volume illustrated with six or more full-page plates in tint. Cloth, 12mo, with decorative cover, per volume, 60 cents. LIST OF TITLES BY MARY HAZELTON WADE (unless otherwise indicated) Our Little African Cousin Our Little Armenian Cousin Our Little Brown Cousin Our Little Canadian Cousin By Elizabeth R. Macdonald Our Little Chinese Cousin By Isaac Taylor Headland Our Little Cuban Cousin Our Little Dutch Cousin By Blanche McManus Our Little English Cousin By Blanche McManus Our Little Eskimo Cousin Our Little French Cousin By Blanche McManus Our Little German Cousin Our Little Hawaiian Cousin Our Little Indian Cousin Our Little Irish Cousin Our Little Italian Cousin Our Little Japanese Cousin Our Little Jewish Cousin Our Little Korean Cousin By H. Lee M. Pike Our Little Mexican Cousin By Edward C. Butler Our Little Norwegian Cousin Our Little Panama Cousin By H. Lee M. Pike Our Little Philippine Cousin Our Little Porto Rican Cousin Our Little Russian Cousin Our Little Scotch Cousin By Blanche McManus Our Little Siamese Cousin Our Little Spanish Cousin By Mary F. Nixon-Roulet Our Little Swedish Cousin By Claire M. Coburn Our Little Swiss Cousin Our Little Turkish Cousin L. C. PAGE & COMPANY New England Building, Boston, Mass. * * * * * [Illustration: DONALD GORDON.] OUR LITTLE SCOTCH COUSIN by BLANCHE McMANUS Author of "Our Little English Cousin," "Our Little French Cousin," etc. Illustrated by The Author [Illustration] Boston L. C. Page & Company MDCCCCVI Copyright, 1906 by L. C. Page & Company (Incorporated) All rights reserved The Little Cousin Series (Trade Mark) First Impression, April, 1906 Second Impression, November, 1906 Colonial Press Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. Boston, U.S.A. Preface TO the thousands of little American cousins the little Scotch cousins send their greetings. The Scotch, perhaps, are not so very different from the Americans, after all, and certainly there is so much in common between the English, the Americans, and the Scotch that each may be expected to have a lively concern in the affairs of the other!