THISTLEDOWN
- New and Enlarged Edition, 1913
- Second Impression, 1914
- Third Impression, 1919
- Fourth Impression, 1921
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.