Cakes, Leeks, Puddings, and Potatoes
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Excerpt from Cakes, Leeks, Puddings, and Potatoes: A Lecture on the Nationalities of the United Kingdom In his Popular Rhymes of Scotland, Mr. Robert Chambers gives several instances of the former, chiefly supplied to him, as he himself once informed me, by a very competent authority - Sir Walter Scott. Among others he specifies, with illustrative comments, the ´gallant Grahams,´ the ´gay Gordons,´ the ´light Lindsays,´ the ´haughty Hamiltons,´ the ´handsome Hays,´ the ´saucy Scotts,´ the ´mucklemou´ed Murrays,´ ´the wild Macraws,´ the ´greedy Campbells,´ and the ´dirty Dalrymples.´ Even in my own experience, I have occasionally met with very striking examples of some of these characteristics. Mr. Hannay, in one of his Essays from the Quarterly Review, comments upon the same peculiarities; and in his interesting notice of the House of Douglas, he refers to the phrase ´doughty Douglas,´ as being not a mere unmeaning alliteration, but as admirably expressive of the ´pluck´ and manhood of the race which produced so many distinguished heroes. In like manner, in the case of certain localities, special characteristics are frequently associated with the inhabitants. Thus, the people of Lothian and Berwickshire are flatteringly described as ´Loudon louts, Merse brutes, and Lammermuir whaups;´ the inhabitants of the three great commercial towns of the west, as ´Glasgow people, Greenock folk, and Paisley bodies;´ the natives of the Carse of Gowrie, in Perthshire, as the ´carles of the Carse;´ and the male population of Kincardineshire, as the ´merry men o´ the Mearns.´ Again, while some of the inhabitants of the ´kingdom´ of Fife are considered to be slightly subject to lunar influences, as indicated by the term ´Fifeish,´ the legal gentlemen of the capital of Angus are not very enviably characterized as the ´drunken writers of Forfar.´ About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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