The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith Written by Himself
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: May 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781417964963
Subjects: Non-Classifiable; Novelty
First sentence: SOME of the rich houses and great folk pretend to have histories of the auncientness of their families, which they can count back on their fingers almost to the days of Noah's ark, and King Fergus the First; but whatever may spunk out after on this point, I am free to confess, with a safe conscience, in the mean time, that it is not in my power to come up within sight of them; having never seen or heard tell of any body in our connexion, further back than auld granfaither, that I mind of when a laddie; and who it behoves to have belonged by birthright to some parish or other; but where-away, gude kens.