



Produced by Les Bowler





PENELOPE'S EXPERIENCES IN SCOTLAND

Being extracts from the commonplace book of Penelope Hamilton

By Kate Douglas Wiggin

1913 Gay and Hancock edition



                            To G.C.R.



Contents.

     Part First--In Town.

     I.     A Triangular Alliance.
     II.    Edina, Scotia's Darling Seat.
     III.   A Vision in Princes Street.
     IV.    Susanna Crum cudna say.
     V.     We emulate the Jackdaw.
     VI.    Edinburgh society, past and present.
     VII.   Francesca meets th' unconquer'd Scot.
     VIII.  'What made th' Assembly shine?'.
     IX.    Omnia presbyteria est divisa in partes tres.
     X.     Mrs. M'Collop as a sermon-taster.
     XI.    Holyrood awakens.
     XII.   Farewell to Edinburgh.
     XIII.  The spell of Scotland.

     Part Second--In the Country.

     XIV.   The wee theekit hoosie in the loaning.
     XV.    Jane Grieve and her grievances.
     XVI.   The path that led to Crummylowe.
     XVII.  Playing 'Sir Patrick Spens.'
     XVIII. Paris comes to Pettybaw.
     XIX.   Fowk o' Fife.
     XX.    A Fifeshire tea-party.
     XXI.   International bickering.
     XXII.  Francesca entertains the green-eyed monster.
     XXIII. Ballad revels at Rowardennan.
     XXIV.  Old songs and modern instances.
     XXV.   A treaty between nations.
     XXVI.  'Scotland's burning!  Look out!.'
     XXVII. Three magpies and a marriage.




Chapter I. A Triangular Alliance.


     'Edina, Scotia's Darling seat!
      All hail thy palaces and towers!'


Edinburgh, April 189-.

22 Breadalbane Terrace.

We have travelled together before, Salemina, Francesca, and I, and we
know the very worst there is to know about one another. After this point
has been reached, it is as if a triangular marriage had taken place,
and, with the honeymoon comfortably over, we slip along in thoroughly
friendly fashion. I use no warmer word than'friendly' because, in the
first place, the highest tides of feeling do not visit the coasts of
triangular