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PUBLISHED BY
JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS, GLASGOW
Publishers to the University.
MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD., LONDON.
| New York, | The Macmillan Co. |
| London, | Simpkin, Hamilton and Co. |
| Cambridge, | Bowes and Bowes. |
| Edinburgh, | Douglas and Foulis. |
MCMVIII.
SCOTTISH · REMINIS-
CENCES ❧ ❧ BY SIR
ARCHIBALD · GEIKIE · K.C.B.
GLASGOW · JAMES · MACLEHOSE
AND · SONS · PUBLISHERS · TO
THE · UNIVERSITY · 1908
First Edition, April, 1904.
Reprinted April 1904, 1905, 1908.
GLASGOW: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.
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One who has sojourned in every part of acountry and for sixty years has mingled withall classes of its inhabitants; who has watchedthe decay and disappearance of old, and theuprise of new usages; who has been ever onthe outlook for illustrations of native humour,and who has been in the habit all along offreely recounting his experiences to his friends,may perhaps be forgiven if he ventures toput forth some record of what he has seenand heard, as a slight contribution to thehistory of social changes.
Literature is rich in Scottish reminiscencesof this kind, so rich indeed that a writerwho adds another volume to the long listruns great risk of repeating what has alreadybeen told. I have done my best to avoidthis danger by turning over the pages of asmany books of this class as I have been ablevito lay hands upon. In the course of thisreading I have discovered that not a few ofthe ‘stories’ which I picked up long agohave found their way into print. These Ihave generally excluded from the presentvolume, save in cases where my versionseemed to me better than that which hadbeen published. But with all my care Icannot hope to have wholly escaped frompitfalls of this nature.
No one can have read much in this subjectwithout discovering the perennial vitality ofsome anecdote