Entertaining and instructive tales
Subtitle: in two parts
Publisher: Printed by A. Imlay for Alexr. Keith
Published: 1813
Place of publication: Aberdeen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Scottish Chapbooks; Specimens
Notes: Chiefly verse.

Pt. I consists of "Fruits of time parings" by W. Beattie; Pt. II consists of various poems ascribed to George Smith.
Table of contents: title: Contents: (from t.p.) Part I. Fruits of time parings, by W. Beattie, Aberdeen; consisting of the Yule feast, Lass of Aberdeen, Forlorn shepherd, The ale wife coxing her customers, Charact. of a gentleman, Baker and the old priest, Winter night, A Scotch medley, &c. Part II. Three warnings, Plague of four misses, Gregian daughter, Dee and Don, Jamieson the piper, Gray mare the better horse, Bill of fare in 1478, Letter to a taylor, A curior [sic] sermon, &c.