Front matter
Reading edition
THISTLEDOWN
New and Enlarged Edition, 1913
Second Impression, 1914
Third Impression, 1919
Fourth Impression, 1921
Scotch folks humour, being the common gift of Nature to all and sundry in the land, differing only in degree, slips out most frequently when and where least expected. Famous specimens of it come down from our lonesome hillsides—from the cottage and farm ingle-nooks.—Page 34.
Frontispiece.
THISTLEDOWN
A BOOK OF SCOTCH HUMOUR CHARACTER, FOLK-LORE STORY & ANECDOTE
BY ROBERT FORD EDITOR OF “BALLADS OF BAIRNHOOD,” “AULD SCOTS BALLANTS” “VAGABOND SONGS,” ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN DUNCAN
PAISLEY: ALEXANDER GARDNER Publisher by Appointment to the late Queen Victoria