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This collection gathers nineteen short chap-books introduced by a sketch of Dougal Graham and presents a range of comic and popular pieces once circulated among rural and urban readers. It comprises satirical sketches, humorous anecdotes, burlesque histories, balladic narratives, and ribald jests that reflect everyday speech and manners. Episodes feature mock trials, courting scenes, local reminiscences, and whimsical adventures, alongside compilations of witticisms and verse. The tone moves between coarse, earthy humour and sharp observation, preserving vernacular attitudes, popular beliefs, and the lively comic sensibility of chap-book circulation.

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Title: John Cheap, the Chapman's Library. Vol. 1: Comic and Humorous

Author: Dougal Graham

Release date: May 10, 2020 [eBook #62080]
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Language: English

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

This book is a collection of nineteen separate ‘Chap-books’, with an introduction on the life of Dougal Graham. Each Chap-book has its own page numbering from 1 to 24. (It so happens they are all 24 pages in length.)

The three Footnote anchors are denoted by [A], [B] and [C], and they have been placed at the end of their section.

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

Many minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book.

John Cheap
The Chapman’s Library:

THE

SCOTTISH CHAP LITERATURE

OF LAST CENTURY, CLASSIFIED.

WITH LIFE OF DOUGAL GRAHAM.

COMIC AND HUMOROUS.


GLASGOW:

ROBERT LINDSAY, QUEEN STREET.

1877.

CONTENTS.

The Life of Dougal Graham.
Witty Sayings and Exploits of George Buchanan.
Adventures of Bamfylde Moore Carew.
Daniel O’Rourke’s Voyage to the Moon.
The Comical Tricks of Lothian Tom, &c.
Comical History of the King and the Cobbler.
John Cheap, the Chapman.
Simple John and his Twelve Misfortunes.
The Wise Men of Gotham.
Mansie Waugh, Tailor in Dalkeith.
Jockey and Maggie’s Courtship.
The Coalman’s Courtship.
History of Buckhaven: Wise Willy and Witty Eppy.
The Dominie Deposed. Maggie Johnston’s Elegy.
A Groat’s Worth of Fun for a Penny.
The Comical Sayings of Paddy from Cork.
Fun upon Fun; or, Leper the Tailor, &c.
John Falkirk’s Cariches.
Grinning made Easy,—Funny Dick’s Jokes.
The Scotch Haggis; or, Choice Bon-Mots.