Scottish toasts by Charles Welsh
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"Scottish toasts by Charles Welsh" is a collection of toasts, sentiments, and after‑dinner anecdotes compiled in the early 20th century. It serves as a convivial handbook, offering ready-made lines for festive gatherings, with a clear focus on Scottish patriotism, fellowship, love, humor, and the social rituals around food, song, and whisky. The book opens with an introduction and a playful “Scotch Nicht” menu, then arranges its material into themed sections: Patriotic Toasts
that praise Scotland’s landscapes, heroes, and symbols; a set of lively Volunteer and soldier anecdotes under Patriotic Scotsmen; affectionate and companionable lines in Toasts to Women, Love, Friendship; rollicking Convivial and Humourous Toasts celebrating John Barleycorn; and a batch of ribald, ironic whisky tales in Some After Dinner Stories. Further Miscellaneous Toasts and a closing Miscellany mix blessings, Scots dialect, and quotations (often from Burns and Scott), touching on bagpipes, St. Andrew’s Day, golf, and homely virtues. The result is a compact, browseable treasury designed to arm any toastmaster with a fitting line for almost any Scottish occasion. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Welsh, Charles, 1850-1914 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 08022627 |
| Title | Scottish toasts |
| Alternate Title | Scotch toasts |
| Original Publication | New York: H. M. Caldwell Co., 1908. |
| Contents | Introduction -- Menu -- Patriotic toasts -- Patriotic Scotsmen -- Toasts to women, love, friendship, etc. -- Convivial and humourous toasts and sentiments -- Some after dinner stories -- Miscellaneous toasts and sentiments -- Scottish toasts: a miscellany. |
| Credits | Aaron Adrignola and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections |
| Subject | Toasts |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 76945 |
| Release Date | Sep 28, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 318 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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