Oor ain folk times

CONTENTS
CHAPTEE VI
Boyish Recollections of the Disruption Sufferings — Our Village —
Willie Carr — The ' Feeing ' or ' Term ' Market : its Sights
and Sounds ; its Evil Features — The Minister and the Drover
— A Forced Declaration — -Encounter with 'Dubrach' at
Ballater Fair — My Father's Athletic Prowess — Dared by
Geordie to ; Haud the Ploo ' — The Result — How he cowed
the Captain — Instances of his Strength — His Emotional
Nature — An Honest Man ! Pages 67-83
CHAPTER VII
Our Village School — The Old - time Dominie — Anecdotes — Our
Village Dominies — 'Peter Pundwecht' — 'Creeshie Pow' —
Home Discipline of the old Regime — The Meagre Mental
Equipment of our Dominie — Contrast between the Old System
and the New — Our School Games and Boyish Toys : ' Bools
and Peeries '; Hockey — Curling — 'Gowf — The Teetotum —
Jeems Dunn's Letter — Lassies' Games — Quaint Old Rhymes
and Customs — The Annual Blanket-washing — A Contrast —
Hogmanay — The Shorter Carritches — School-book Rhymes —
' Het Rows an' Butter Baiks ' — ' Nifferin' ' — Nursery Rhymes
— A Schoolboy Conspiracy and how it ended . . 84-117
CHAPTER VIII
Our Village Characters : their Mental Attitude — Village Poet —
Specimens of his Muse — Rob Osal', the Flesher — Daft Jamie —
Willie Burness — Willie Hood — 'Sneeshin' on the Cheap' —
Robbie Welsh— Peter M'Kenzie— Anecdotes . . 118-130