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Title: My Man Sandy

Author: J. B. Salmond

Release Date: February 7, 2007 [EBook #20540]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: Cover Art--Sandy]

MY MAN SANDY

BY

J. B. SALMOND

SIXTH EDITION

SANDS & CO.

EDINBURGH: 37 GEORGE STREET

LONDON: 15 KING STREET, COVENT GARDEN

1919

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 sketches 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, 1889._

CONTENTS.

I. SANDY SWAPS HIS POWNEY
II. SANDY STARTS TO STUDY GEOMETRY
III. SANDY AND THE DINNER BELL
IV. A TALK ABOUT HEAVEN
V. MISTRESS MIKAVER'S TEA PARTY
VI. SANDY'S SECOND LESSON IN GEOMETRY
VII. SANDY'S MAGIC LANTERN EXHIBITION
VIII. SANDY AND THE RHUBARB TART
IX. THE GREAT STORM OF NOVEMBER, 1893
X. SANDY AND HIS FAIRNTICKLES
XI. SANDY STANDS "EMPIRE" AT A CRICKET MATCH
XII. A DREADFUL DISASTER IN THE GARRET
XIII. SANDY AND BAWBIE'S SPRING HOLIDAY
XIV. LOVE AND WAR
XV. SANDY MAKES A SPEECH
XVI. SANDY'S CHRISTMAS PRESENT
XVII. AT THE SELECT CHOIR'S CONCERT
XVIII. SANDY RUNS A RACE
XIX. SANDY REVENGED
XX. SANDY'S APOLOGIA

MY MAN SANDY.

I

SANDY SWAPS HIS POWNEY.

He's a queer cratur, my man Sandy! He's made, mind an' body o' him, on
an original plan a'thegither. He says an' does a' mortal thing on a
system o' his ain; Gairner Winton often says that if Sandy had been in
the mar