Epigraph
Here on the Rand we freely grant
We’re blest wi’ sunny weather;
Fae cauld an’ snaw we’re weel awa,
But man, we miss the heather.
JOHANNESBURG, S.A.
Dedication
TO MY WIFE
Note
Some of these verses appeared originally in “The Scots Observer,” “The National Observer,” “Black and White,” “The Outlook,” “The Spectator,” “Chambers’ Journal,” and other papers; and a number of them were published in volume form in 1900 by Messrs. D. Wyllie and Son, Aberdeen. In the present collection many new poems appear for the first time.