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The life of Mansie Wauch, tailor in Dalkeith
Written in the first person, this chapbook briefly tells the story of Mansie Waunch’s life in Dalkeith. Brief vignettes offer amusing anecdotes from Mansie’s life, including his first festival, his first love, meeting and marrying his wife, attending…
The History of Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper. New and Improved Series no. 45
Part of a series of fairy tales printed by the booksellers. This chapbook tells the classic fairy tale of Cinderella, which has several illustrations throughout. This tale is followed by a second fairy tale titled Hop-O’-My-Thumb, which appears to be…
The monk and the miller's wife. A comic tale.
This song tells the humorous tale of a miller and his young wife, who has been having an affair with the local priest. When a scholar traveling from St. Andrews happens upon the mill in the evening, the miller invites him to stay the night with his…
Rob Roy, the Celebrated Highland Freebooter; or, Memoirs of the Osbaldistone Family.
This is a condensed version of Sir Walter Scott's historical novel (part of the Waverly novel series) Rob Roy, which was originally published in 1817. It appears to have been set in 1715, the year of the first Jacobite Rising.
A Wedding-Ring, fit for the finger: Laid open in a sermon, Preached at a Wedding in St. Edmond's. By William Secker, Late preacher of the gospel.
A sermon on Genesis ii. 18: And the Lord God said, it is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him a help-meet for him. The preacher breaks up the passage into smaller phrases and deals with them individually, extolling the many virtues…
