A collection of short poems and stories on a variety of topics, including a conversation between a bully (fause knight) and a school boy, a number of coercions in trying to teach an old woman to whistle, a humorous story of a man coming home to find…

A reprint of a story taken from Robert Chambers’s Popular Rhymes of Scotland. In this variation of a Cinderella tale, Rashie-Coat is a king’s daughter who does not wish to marry the man chosen for her. She seeks the advice of an old hen-wife, who…

A collection of excerpts drawn from a variety of chronicles and histories in medieval and early modern Scottish literature, such as John Barbour and John Fordun, presented with short annotations by the editor. Collectively, the excerpts have been…

A poem written in 1777 that was “founded on an ancient custom in Dumfries, called Shooting for the Siller Gun,” a tradition based around James VI gift of the gun to the best marksman in the Corporation of Dumfries. The poem itself describes the scene…

A humorous song about Watty and his wife, Meg, who nags and quarrels and scolds him within an inch of his life. One morning, after being yelled at in front of all his friends and dragged home by Meg after a night of drinking, he tells he is leaving…