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With Annecdotes of Strathearn by D Macara (1881)
"THIS work is intended to serve an important purpose. In every district, but especially in one so important as that of Crieff, there is much floating information which has been transmitted from generation to generation, but which has never been written in a book. There are reminiscences of obsolete customs, traditions, and superstitions, and humorous anecdotes of schoolmasters, ministers, and other public men. These are not the materials which are usually taken up by historians, but still they do throw some light upon history. They may give us some idea of what is so often ignored by dignified historical writers, viz., the lives of the common people. We may get some notion of their houses, their dress, their furniture, their food, their superstitions, their amusements, their way of thinking, speaking, and acting.
It is with a view of preserving a varied collection of local traditions and stories that the publisher has made the following selection. It embraces notes and incidents relating to almost all phases of country and village life in and around Crieff, more especially referring to the first sixty years of the century, which will, it is hoped, give an insight into those scenes of " the good old times," which are looked back upon with mixed feelings, and most of which, owing to the irresistible effects of change, will never be re-enacted.
For these reasons the Publisher hopes that this book will prove both entertaining and instructive, not only to the inhabitants and frequenters of Crieff and its neighbourhood, but to the English reading public generally.
The Publisher in his endeavour to produce this work has been greatly aided by Mr D. Kippen, Crieff, and also by Mr John M'culloch (Barn-kittoch), who has supplied many of his well known and racy pieces. To both of these gentlemen he begs to tender his best thanks.
June 1881.
This book comes in 2 parts and at the top of each part is a pdf version but below you'll also find a rough, and I do mean rough, version in text.
You can get to this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/crieff/
Alastair
"THIS work is intended to serve an important purpose. In every district, but especially in one so important as that of Crieff, there is much floating information which has been transmitted from generation to generation, but which has never been written in a book. There are reminiscences of obsolete customs, traditions, and superstitions, and humorous anecdotes of schoolmasters, ministers, and other public men. These are not the materials which are usually taken up by historians, but still they do throw some light upon history. They may give us some idea of what is so often ignored by dignified historical writers, viz., the lives of the common people. We may get some notion of their houses, their dress, their furniture, their food, their superstitions, their amusements, their way of thinking, speaking, and acting.
It is with a view of preserving a varied collection of local traditions and stories that the publisher has made the following selection. It embraces notes and incidents relating to almost all phases of country and village life in and around Crieff, more especially referring to the first sixty years of the century, which will, it is hoped, give an insight into those scenes of " the good old times," which are looked back upon with mixed feelings, and most of which, owing to the irresistible effects of change, will never be re-enacted.
For these reasons the Publisher hopes that this book will prove both entertaining and instructive, not only to the inhabitants and frequenters of Crieff and its neighbourhood, but to the English reading public generally.
The Publisher in his endeavour to produce this work has been greatly aided by Mr D. Kippen, Crieff, and also by Mr John M'culloch (Barn-kittoch), who has supplied many of his well known and racy pieces. To both of these gentlemen he begs to tender his best thanks.
June 1881.
This book comes in 2 parts and at the top of each part is a pdf version but below you'll also find a rough, and I do mean rough, version in text.
You can get to this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/crieff/
Alastair