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go running pafl him, which he never
minded, but kept jogging on at his
own leilure : and as he was going into
Linlithgow about twelve o’clock, up
comes the young fpark, and aiked the
lailor what o’clock it was, Why, fays
the failor, I fee you have a watch and
I have none, what is it ? Out he pulls
his watch, ho! faid he, it’s diredtly
twelve, and what do you think, it was
half an hour after ten or I came out
of Edinburgh, I have walked it in an
hour and a half; it is pretty well tript,
fays the failor, but pray hr, what man
of bufinefs are you ? O! faid he, I am
a watch maker. I was thinking fo,
faid the failor, for you have made the
watch anfwer your feet, for they can¬
not anfwer a right watch, and I fup-
pofe your tongue cannot keep time
with either of them ; do you remem-
ber where you pailed me this morn¬
ing about eight o’clock ? O yes, faid
he, and off he went.
A certain old reverend prieft being
one night at fupper in a gentleman’s
houfe, and for one article having eggs,
the ferver of the table laid a cloth on
go running pafl him, which he never
minded, but kept jogging on at his
own leilure : and as he was going into
Linlithgow about twelve o’clock, up
comes the young fpark, and aiked the
lailor what o’clock it was, Why, fays
the failor, I fee you have a watch and
I have none, what is it ? Out he pulls
his watch, ho! faid he, it’s diredtly
twelve, and what do you think, it was
half an hour after ten or I came out
of Edinburgh, I have walked it in an
hour and a half; it is pretty well tript,
fays the failor, but pray hr, what man
of bufinefs are you ? O! faid he, I am
a watch maker. I was thinking fo,
faid the failor, for you have made the
watch anfwer your feet, for they can¬
not anfwer a right watch, and I fup-
pofe your tongue cannot keep time
with either of them ; do you remem-
ber where you pailed me this morn¬
ing about eight o’clock ? O yes, faid
he, and off he went.
A certain old reverend prieft being
one night at fupper in a gentleman’s
houfe, and for one article having eggs,
the ferver of the table laid a cloth on
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Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Scotland/Scots > Scots piper's queries, or, John Falkirk's carriches > (14) |
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Description | Over 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides. |
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