Erchie, My Droll Friend
by Neil Munro
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About This Book
A worthy successor to the best-selling Para Handy. One hundred years after he first appeared in print, Erchie brilliantly displays Munro's gift for humour and characterization as well as providing a marvellous insight into the Scotland of the time. Erchie MacPherson, Glasgow waiter and Kirk beadle, first appeared in the Glasgow Evening News in February 1902 - nearly three years before the appearance of the better-known Para Handy series.The Erchie stories were an instant success. In 1993 Brian Osborne and Ronald Armstrong produced for Birlinn an edition of the Erchie stories and included 52 st...
Chapters (36)(click to expand)
- ERCHIE
- My Droll Friend
- (Neil Munro)
- (The Looker-On)
- PREFACE.
- ERCHIE
- I INTRODUCTORY TO AN ODD CHARACTER
- II ERCHIE’S FLITTING
- III DEGENERATE DAYS
- IV THE BURIAL OF BIG MACPHEE
- V THE PRODIGAL SON
- VI MRS DUFFY DESERTS HER MAN
- VII CARNEGIE’S WEE LASSIE
- VIII A SON OF THE CITY
- IX ERCHIE ON THE KING’S CRUISE
- X HOW JINNET SAW THE KING
- XI ERCHIE RETURNS
- XII DUFFY’S FIRST FAMILY
- XIII ERCHIE GOES TO A BAZAAR
- XIV HOLIDAYS
- XV THE STUDENT LODGER
- XVI JINNET’S TEA-PARTY
- XVII THE NATIVES OF CLACHNACUDDEN
- XVIII MARY ANN
- XIX DUFFY’S, WEDDING
- XX ON CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
- XXI THE FOLLIES OF FASHION
- XXII ERCHIE IN AN ART TEA-ROOM
- XXIII THE HIDDEN TREASURE
- XXIV THE VALENTEEN
- XXV AMONG THE PICTURES
- XXVI THE PROBATIONARY GHOST
- XXVII JINNET’S CHRISTMAS SHOPPING
- XXVIII A BET ON BURNS
- XXIX THE PRODIGAL’S RETURN
- THE END.
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