Friend Mac Donald

necdote and its Character.-The

the few months that I had the pleasure of passing

etend that nobody

rt of laughter, too: a laugh that is fra

ld permit me to write a little volume on your dear country, and you will, may be, accu

ong in your impressi

eturn home, all those delicious anecdotes came back to my memory, and I c

thought I might make myself useful and agreeable in offering French

strange and the horrible, it is all up with this one. But such is no

give the kindest reception to my books on England, and I certainly never had any other aim or ambit

hose anecdotes alone would suffice to

show the thoughtless side of the Irish character. They are ve

e anecdotes a picture of the Scotch manners

oned down, and the language he speaks is growing more and more English: he is a cha

for he has no desire to

the present day: finesse and matter-of-fact good-humour. You will find these

upper classes, the Scotch diffe

lings, and does not mind talking about them; in fact, he will give you anecdotes to illustrate them, and th

te down what I saw and heard. I owe the scenes of life I describe to the Scotch who ena