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Ye'll No Sell Your Hen on a Rainy Day

and other canny Scottish proverbs

Allan Ramsay author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Luath Press Ltd

Published:20th Dec '23

Should be back in stock very soon

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A collection of proverbs in the original Scots, and translated into English covering family, work, money, self-Improvement and food and drink amongst other topics. Scots proverbs tell it like it is, and provide advice for a myriad of situations. This pocketsize volume would make an excellent souvenir or a gift for any occasion.

Without doubt Allan Ramsay is an unsung hero of Scottish poetry… It is fair to say without Ramsay there would be no Robert Burns.PROF. GERARD CARRUTHERS, University of Glasgow

Allan Ramsay was not only a pioneer of the Romantic movement and a collector and editor of Scots songs; he was also a cultural innovator of the Enlightenment. PROF. MURRAY PITTOCK, University of Glasgow

ISBN: 9781804251140

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

128 pages