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Title: Thistledown: A Book of Scotch Humour, Character, Folk-lore, Story & Anecdote

Author: Robert Ford

Illustrator: John Duncan


Release date: March 6, 2022 [eBook #67576]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: Alexander Gardner, 1913

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THISTLEDOWN

Scotch folks humour, being the common gift of Nature to all and sundry in the land, differing only in degree, slips out most frequently when and where least expected. Famous specimens of it come down from our lonesome hillsides—from the cottage and farm ingle-nooks.—Page 34.

Frontispiece.

THISTLEDOWN

A BOOK OF SCOTCH HUMOUR
CHARACTER, FOLK-LORE
STORY & ANECDOTE

BY
ROBERT FORD
EDITOR OF
“BALLADS OF BAIRNHOOD,” “AULD SCOTS BALLANTS”
“VAGABOND SONGS,” ETC.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BY JOHN DUNCAN

PAISLEY: ALEXANDER GARDNER
Publisher by Appointment to the late Queen Victoria