OF

THE SCOTTISH PEASANTRY.

BY THE

REV. HENRY DUNCAN, D.D.,

AND OTHERS.

EDINBURGH: WILLIAM OLIPHANT AND CO.

LONDON: HAMILTON ADAMS AND CO.

250. m.

PREFACE,

THE following Narratives were written chiefly by a society of clergymen in Dumfries-shire, in imitation of those excellent productions, the Moral Tales of Mrs. Hannah More. The intention of the authors was to adapt this captivating mode of instruction to the religious sentiments, as well as to the manners and habits, of the intelligent peasantry in this northern division of the United Kingdom; and particularly, by exciting a local interest in the publication, to render