J. B. SALMOND

SIXTH EDITION

SANDS & CO.
EDINBURGH: 37 GEORGE STREET
LONDON: 15 KING STREET, COVENT GARDEN
1919

PREFACE.

These sketches are taken from a series written originally for newspaper purposes. Revision of them has made their author keenly conscious of their defects; but Bawbie and Sandy are characters who might be completely spoiled by improvement. The sketches are therefore presented as they were hastily "rubbed-in" for serial publication.

The "foo," "far," "fat," and "fan" of the Angus dialect have been changed into the more classic "hoo," "whaur," &c.; otherwise the sketches remain in the form in which they have gained quite an unexpected popularity amongst Scottish readers both at home and abroad.

ARBROATH, N.B.,
April, 1889.

CONTENTS.

I. [SANDY SWAPS HIS POWNEY]
II. [SANDY STARTS TO STUDY GEOMETRY]
III. [SANDY AND THE DINNER BELL]
IV. [A TALK ABOUT HEAVEN]
V. [MISTRESS MIKAVER'S TEA PARTY]
VI. [SANDY'S SECOND LESSON IN GEOMETRY]
VII. [SANDY'S MAGIC LANTERN EXHIBITION]
VIII. [SANDY AND THE RHUBARB TART]
IX. [THE GREAT STORM OF NOVEMBER, 1893]
X. [SANDY AND HIS FAIRNTICKLES]
XI. [SANDY STANDS "EMPIRE" AT A CRICKET MATCH]
XII. [A DREADFUL DISASTER IN THE GARRET]
XIII. [SANDY AND BAWBIE'S SPRING HOLIDAY]
XIV. [LOVE AND WAR]
XV. [SANDY MAKES A SPEECH]
XVI. [SANDY'S CHRISTMAS PRESENT]
XVII. [AT THE SELECT CHOIR'S CONCERT]
XVIII. [SANDY RUNS A RACE]
XIX. [SANDY REVENGED]
XX. [SANDY'S APOLOGIA]