Alexander Macdonald
Published: 2018-10-07
Total Pages: 46
Get eBook
Excerpt from A Jumble of Jottings: From the Memories of a Quiet Life Among the many changes I will have constantly to chronicle, none has been more remarkable, more thorough and sweeping, than the introduction of the new police, the repression of street begg ing, and the housing of street objects. Such objects the present generation can have but the faintest idea of. Feel Peter, Jupiter Johnny, the Bawbee Boy, Mourican, Feel Willie Milne, Buttery Willie Collie, Jean Carr, Jock o' Wagley, General Brown, Willie Goodman - these were all free to roam where'er they liked, entering houses and shops ad lz'hz'tnm. They were an insti tution in which the boys claimed to haveas much of a vested interest as they had in bools, buttons, or t0ps, only the latter had their seasons, while the former were perennial. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.