Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character eBook

Edward Bannerman Ramsay
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 542 pages of information about Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character.

Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character eBook

Edward Bannerman Ramsay
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 542 pages of information about Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character.

East Lothian minister and his betheral taking degrees at a northern
  college. 
Economy, specimen of Scottish. 
Edinburgh and Aberdeen provosts. 
‘E’ening brings a’ hame,’ expressed by Lord Byron. 
Eglinton, Earl of, and little boy. 
‘Eh, man, your Psalm buik has been ill bund.’ 
‘Eh, Miss Jeany! ye have been lang spared.’ 
Eldin, Lord (John Clerk), anecdotes of. 
Election, answer of minister to question. 
Elphinstone, Lord, and minister of Cumbernauld. 
Endearment, Scottish terms of. 
Englishman, an impruived
Enterteening, curious use of word. 
Episcopalian chapels, anecdote of Sir W. Forbes. 
Erskine, Colonel, servant proposes an aith for his relief. 
Erskine, Hon. Henry, dinner party at Lord Armadale’s. 
Erskine, Mr., of Dun, and his old servant. 
Erskine of Dun, Miss. 
Estate giving the name to proprietor. 
Examinations of communicants
Expressions, old Scottish, and modern slang contrasted
Expressions, specimens of Scottish

Factors, proposal to sow field with
‘Fah tee, fah tee’
Fail, curious use of word
Family worship now more common
Family worship, remark upon
Farmer and servant boy
Farmer, answer of, when asked to take rhubarb tart
Farmer, cool answer regarding notes
Farmer on Deeside and bottle of vinegar
Farmer refusing a dessert spoon
Farmer, Scottish, conversation with English girl
Farms, giving names to the tenants
Fash as to taking a wife
Fast-day, national, strictness in observing
‘Fat for should I gang to the opera just to creat a confeesion?’
Fencing tables, by an old minister
Fencing the deil
Fergusson of Pitfour and London lady
Fettercairn, custom of bowing to heritors
Fife elder and penurious laird
Fife, Lord, proposal to, by an idiot
‘Fin’ a fardin’ for yersell, puir body’
Finzean, Laird of, swearing
Fisher of men
Fit raiment, explanation of, by child
Fleeman, Jamie, anecdote of
Fleeman, Jamie, the Laird of Udny’s fool, life of, published
‘Floorish o’ the surface,’ to describe a preacher
Forbes, Mrs., of Medwyn, fond of tea
Forbes’s banking-house, anecdotes of
‘Formerly robbers, now thieves’
Frail, curious use of word
Fraser, Jamie, address to minister in kirk
Fraser, Jamie, idiot of Lunan
Free Church, road of, ‘tolls unco high’
‘Freet’s dear! sin’ I sauld freet in streets o’ Aberdeen’
French people, a clause in their favour, by a Scottish minister
Fruit, abstinence from, by minister
Fullerton, Miss Nelly, anecdote of
Funeral, anecdote of, in Strathspey
Funeral, carrying at, or leaning
Funeral, extraordinary account of a Scottish, at Carluke
Funeral of a laird of Dundonald
Funeral, reason for a farmer taking another glass at
Funeral, reason for a person being officious at
Funeral, taking orders for, on deathbed
Funeral, the coffin forgotten at

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