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Description - The Laird of Logan, Or, Wit of the West, a Collection of Anecdotes, Jests, and Comic Tales, by J.D. Carrick. 2nd Ser. [Ed. by J.D. Carrick]. by Hugh Logan

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...IIAWKIE'S PRECAUTION. Hawkie was pursuing his calling on the street one evening, when a wag, behind him, pretended to riflo his coat pockets. Hawkie, with the greatest nonchalance, said, " Fin' awa, friend, I was there afore ye." HAWKIE AND SIR WALTER SCOTT. Hawkie's narratives were always to be taken with a large discount. When challenged as to the truth of his statement, ho used to say, " That a guid lie made truth look mair respectable. What was't ye gied Walter Scott a monument for in George's Square? Just because he was a gnid liar." IRISH INTELLIGENCE. Hawkie had an inveterate hatred to the Irish, and the merciless lash of his satirical tongue, seemed never so much in the element in which it found delight, than when flaying the back of poor Paddy. "Will ye," said he to a patron, "gie me a newspaper to read to the Paddies in my lodgings? I want to gie them the last news frae Ireland!" "I have no paper, Hawkie, but some old one out of date." "Just gie't to me; it will do. I'll read to them what ne'er was written or in print." GETTING OVER A DIFFICULTY. A Clergyman who had more mother wit than critical knowledge of the sacred volume, came, in the course of his expositions, to a passage that he thought safer to leap clean over than attempt to elucidate. "My friends," says the prelector, "this is a dark and difficult passage; the one that follows is clear enough, so we shall just take it up." WANT OF A MARRIAGE REGISTER. "What was the name o' your second wife, Tammas? I was just disputing wi' a friend the ither nicht about it." "Man, it was--but--that's odd! Ye mind her name weel eneuch, surely, yoursel'! she was a lassie frae Denny." A SCARCE ARTICLE. We ha...

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