Rough Scan
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 aketches 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, 1899.