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NOTES AND QUERIES. en s. i. JAX. 15, 1910.
Now, if a long and wide experience may
be admitted to have value, all these examples
misrepresent the colloquial practice of the
Scottish Lowlands. The present writer has
conversed with old people representative
of the two periods to which the episodes
of Borrow's fisherman and the Glasgow
ironmaster are respectively assigned, and
never once detected this solecism in their
phraseology. Nor, it need hardly be said,
was it ever noticed in the speech of
those who were contemporaries of William
Morris. A single instance would have clung
to the memory, just because of its being
unique ; but there is not one to put on record.
On the other hand, so far as a fairly
close observation has gone, the speaker of
" broad Scotch " correctly discriminates in
his employment of the various demonstra-
tives. If he does not treat them as gram-
marians say they ought to be treated, he
must be of an uncommonly rude and alto-
gether unlettered habit. Daily practice
favours the conventional usage. When, for
example, a song-writer proclaims, "We'll
gang nae mair to yon toon, n he knows that
his readers will understand that the town
in question is at some distance, and that if
they locate it in their interpretation they will
be aware that it must be a place which can be
reached only after a process of locomotion.
It cannot by any possibility be the town on
the borders of which they stand while they
sing, even as the fisherman stood by the
banks of the dividing water which he called
" yon river.'* When another lyrist begins
with the exclamation, " Yon sun was set,"
it is just possible to argue that he illustrates
the survival of the earlier " thon,' ? which
sometimes had little more force than that of
the definite article ; but this opens up a
question which is outside the present
discussion. Burns's practice with regard to
" yon " and its associates is that which has
prevailed in Scotland during the last
hundred years. There is no ambiguity about
"yon reverend lad " as sung by Merry
Andrew in 'The Jolly Beggars, 1 or "yon
birkie ca'd a Lord " in 'A Man 's a Man for
a'- That/ and the Scotsman has used the word
in the poet's sense ever since these phrases
were written. He also recognizes the dis-
tinctions observed by the fervent minstrel
when he writes in his inimitable ' Mary
Morison ? :
Tho' this was fair, an' that was braw, An' yon the toast o' a' the town,
I sigh'd, an' said amang them a', " Ye are na Mary Morison."
THOMAS BAYNE.
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Mr. Fisher protested against the Act of Parliament which required eleven copies of all new books to be pre- sented to Public Libraries. This was reduced to rive copies by the Copyright Act of 1842.
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Gardiner, William Nelson, Bookseller, Pall Mall d. 1814. ' A Brief Memoir of Himself,' Gentleman's Magazine, vol. Ixxxiv. pp. 622-3. He was an eccentric man, with a considerable know- ledge of books, and a spirited engraver. He committed suicide, leaving behind him a letter to a friend ending : " I die in the principles I have published a sound Whig." With the letter was enclosed the ' Memoir of Himself,' printed in The Gentleman's Magazine, .Tune, 1814. Glasgow. Some Notes on the Early Printers, Publishers, and Booksellers of Glasgow. See ' Book- Auction Records,' edited by Frank Karslake, vol. v. part 3, April June, 1908.
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