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Friend Mac Donald

BY

MAX O'RELL

AUTHOR OF
"JOHN BULL AND HIS ISLAND," ETC


Arrowsmith's Bristol Library
Vol. XXV


BRISTOL
J. W. Arrowsmith, 11 Quay Street
LONDON
Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 4 Stationers' Hall Court
1887


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CONTENTS.

Chap. I.—A Word to Donald.—The Scotch Anecdote andits Character.—The Scotch painted by Themselves.

Chap. II.—Donald, a British Subject, but no Englishman.—Opinionof the greatest English Wit on the Scotch, andthe worth of that Opinion.—The Wit of Donald and the Witof the Cockney.—Intelligence and Intellectuality.—Donald'sExterior.—Donald's Interior.—Help yourself and Heavenwill help you.—An Irish and a Scotch Servant facing aDifficulty.—How a small Scotchman may make himselfuseful in the Hour of Danger.—Characteristics.—Donald onTrain Journeys.—One Way of avoiding Tolls.

Chap. III.—All Scots know how to Reckon.—Rabelais inScotland.—How Donald made Twopence-halfpenny by goingto the Lock-up.—Difference between Buying and Stealing.—ScotchHonesty.—Last Words of a Father to his Son.—Abrahamin Scotland.—How Donald outdid Jonathan.—Circumspection,Insinuations, and Negations.—DeliciousDeclarations of Love.—Laconism.—Conversation reduced toits simplest Expression.—A, e, i, o, u.—A Visit to ThomasCarlyle.—The Silent Academy of Hamadan.—With theAuthor's Compliments.

Chap. IV.—The traditional Hospitality of the Highlands.—Onemore fond Belief gone.—Highland Bills.—Donald'stwo Trinities.—Never trust Donald on Saturdays and Mondays.—TheGame he prefers.—A Well-informed Man.—Askno Questions and you will be told no Tales.—How Donaldiishowed prodigious Things to a Cockney in the Highlands.—Thereis no Man so dumb as he who will not be heard.

Chap. V.—Resemblance of Donald to the Norman.—Donaldmarketing.—Bearding a Barber.—Norman Replies.—Cant.—Whythe Whisky was not marked on the Hotel Bill.—NewUse for the Old and New Testaments.—You shouldlove your Enemies and not swallow them.—A modest Wish.

Chap. VI.—Democratic Spirit in Scotland.—One Scot asgood as another.—Amiable Beggars.—Familiarity of Servants.—Shoutall together!—A Scotchman who does notadmire his Wife.—Donald's Pride.—The Queen and herScotch People.—Little Presents keep alive Friendship.

Chap. VII.—Scottish Perseverance.—Thomas Carlyle,David Livingstone, and General Gordon.—Literary Exploitsof a Scotchman.—Scottish Students.—All the Students study.—Auseful Library.—A

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