Mr. Punch's Scottish Humour

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Mr. Punch's Scottish Humour

Table of Contents

“N.B.”

“AS ITHERS SEE US”

LINES BY A SCOTSMAN

THE LUNNON TWANG

SCOTLAND YET

SONG OF A LONDON SCOT

THE EGREGIOUS ENGLISHMAN

A SECOND VISIT TO SCOTLAND

“THE HIELAND BEAUTY”

KINGHORN AN’ LUNNON

A SKETCH IN SCOTLAND

SPORTIVE SONGS

SOBER SCOTS

A NEW “ADDRESS TO THE DEIL”

THE DECAY OF THE KILT

A SCOTS BALL-ROOM BALLAD

THE POINT OF VIEW

HOMAGE TO THE SCOTS RIFLES

UNSPEAKABLE SCOTS

A BALLAD OF EDINBORO’ TOON

TO EDINBURGH[B]

THRUMS ON THE AULD STRING

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

SUNG BY A SCOT IN THE CITY

RIGS AWA’

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Published by Good Press, 2021

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Intending Emigrant (justly indignant). “No!—I’m a Macpherson!”

Old Scots Slang.—In an old Scots Act of Parliament “anent the punishment of drunkards” a clause adjudges all persons “convict” of drunkenness, or tavern-haunting, “for the first fault” to a fine of £3, “or in case of inability or refusal, to be put in jogges or jayle for the space of six hours.” What was “jogges,” as distinguished from “jayle”? Possibly a somewhat milder place of detention for the rather, than that appointed for the very, drunken. If so, “jogges,” in the lapse of time, we may suppose, having lost its distinctive sense, came to be regarded as simply a synonym of “jayle,” and, as such, now passes current in the People’s English (not to say the Queen’s) abbreviated into the contraction “jug.” Thus imprisonment for a state of too much beer might be described as jug for jug.

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