Chapter I: 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

MY MAN SANDY.