CRUMBS

FROM THE

L AND O’CA K E S.

BY

JOHN KNOX,

“ Land of brown heath and shaggy, wood;

Land of the mountain and the food,
Land of my sires." ;

Boston:
PUBLISHED BY GOULD & LINCOLN,

MDCCCLI,

THE NEW YORK :
PUBLIC LIBRARY

163264
ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

1899.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850,

BY GOULD & LINCOLN, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

Prefarr..

“ BLESSED is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed,” is the language of that sublime moralist, Sancho Panza ; and if the expectations of the reader are as moderate as those of the writer, he will certainly be blessed.

Authorship being a profession to which the writer makes no pretensions, having a calling that is perhaps as useful, and certainly more profitable, he hopes, there....' fore, that no one will take the trouble to criticise an un-:-pretending trifle, put forth, not with đáý åspirations of a literary kind, but simply at the suggestion of a few , friends, and mainly for their gratification: 2:5,"

Perhaps an apology may be necessary for embodying in a work professing to be about Scotland, chapters on London, Paris, and Dublin ; but the reader will soon per-" ceive that this is the record of a pleasant journey, in