An account of the comical courtship between a fishwife and a haddie carter : shewing what past while in the steam-boat between Newhaven and Musselburgh, and what happened after landing, how she went to see the shows, and what the black art man told her, which was the beginning of her troubles, and the desperate battle which was fought betwixt some fishwifes and her, on the race course, with an account of a trick played her, and other awful misfortunes.
Maidment, James,1793-1879,former owner.StEdNL.
[Edinburgh? : s.n.,
ca. 1830?]
'Price one penny'.
First line: The following ludicrous scene/ happened at Musselburgh races.
Provenance: Bound in a volume carrying the inscription 'This collection is understood to have been formed by the late James Maidment and it has been added to by me. John A. Fairley' on first fly-leaf.
Illegitimate children
Unmarried mothers