TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
This book is a collection of nineteen separate ‘Chap-books’, withan introduction on the life of Dougal Graham. Each Chap-bookhas its own page numbering from 1 to 24. (It so happens they are all24 pages in length.)
The three Footnote anchors are denoted by [A], [B] and [C],and they have been placed at the end of their section.
The cover image was created by the transcriberand is placed in the public domain.
Many minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book.
John Cheap
The Chapman’s Library:
THE
SCOTTISH CHAP LITERATURE
OF LAST CENTURY, CLASSIFIED.
WITH LIFE OF DOUGAL GRAHAM.
COMIC AND HUMOROUS.
GLASGOW:
ROBERT LINDSAY, QUEEN STREET.
1877.
CONTENTS.
Witty Sayings and Exploits of George Buchanan.
Adventures of Bamfylde Moore Carew.
Daniel O’Rourke’s Voyage to the Moon.
The Comical Tricks of Lothian Tom, &c.
Comical History of the King and the Cobbler.
John Cheap, the Chapman.
Simple John and his Twelve Misfortunes.
The Wise Men of Gotham.
Mansie Waugh, Tailor in Dalkeith.
Jockey and Maggie’s Courtship.
The Coalman’s Courtship.
History of Buckhaven: Wise Willy and Witty Eppy.
The Dominie Deposed. Maggie Johnston’s Elegy.
A Groat’s Worth of Fun for a Penny.
The Comical Sayings of Paddy from Cork.
Fun upon Fun; or, Leper the Tailor, &c.
John Falkirk’s Cariches.
Grinning made Easy,—Funny Dick’s Jokes.
The Scotch Haggis; or, Choice Bon-Mots.
PREFACE.
A name is very often only a definition of a thingin one of its aspects—generally the most obvious toordinary observation, though not always the mostcomprehensive or characteristic. The name Chap-bookis an example of names of this class, and owesits origin to the fact that the tracts which we nowrecognise by it were first—and, indeed, during thewhole time of their circulation as popular literature—soldby chapmen, or pedlars. With the extinction ofthese itinerant