A curious and en[tertai]ng account of the New Year's Day in Auld Reekie : shewing how blythsome and hearty the public-house wife's are, - droll scenes passes between the lads and lassies in the morning, when away first-footing, and what fun and merriness they have dancing tullochgorum when getting tipsey, - also, Paddy O'Conner's curious and laughable petition to be an excisemen [sic].
Maidment, James,1793-1879,former owner.StEdNL.
[Edinburgh? : s.n.,
ca. 1820?]
First lines read: Now mirk December's dowie face,/ Glowrs owre the rigs wi' sour grimace,/ While, through his minimum o' space.
'Price one penny'.
In prose and verse.
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.
New year