Arguing that the Scots are not a humourless people, Howe gathers jokes and anecdotes from many sources and arranges them by subject. Ministers and their elders, judges and barristers, beadles, lairds, drinkers and canny farmers all appear, with replies like the elder’s verdict to his minister that a perverse generation needs them both.
A good bedside dip into dry Scottish humour, gathered in 1898. Download the free EPUB.