An Episcopal dean of Edinburgh collects the sayings and stories of an older Scotland he saw vanishing: stern religious observance, hard-drinking hospitality, outspoken family servants, eccentric lairds and the dry humour of the Scottish bench, much of it in broad Scots. This edition opens with a memoir of Ramsay by his friend Cosmo Innes.
Reprinted through more than twenty editions, it remains a treasury of Scottish anecdote and humour. Download the free EPUB.