Excerpt from Wit and Humor: Classified Under Appropriate Subject Headings, With, in Many Cases, a Reference to a Table of Authors Scotch fit and Humor is a fairly representative collection of the type of wit and humor which is at home north of the Tweed - and almost everywhere else - for are not Scotchmen to be found everywhere To say that wit and humor is not a native of Scotch human nature is to share the responsibility for an inaccuracy the author of which must have been as unobservant as those who repeat it. It is quite true that the humor is not always or generally on the sur face - what treasure IS - and it may be true, too, that the thrifty habits of our northern friends, combined Wlth the earnestness produced by their religious his tory, have brought to the surface the seriousness amounting sometimes almost to heaviness - which is their most apparent characteristic. But under the surface Will be found a rich vein of generosity, and a fund of humor, which soon cure a stranger - if he has eyes to see and is capable of appreciation - of the common error of supposing that Scotchmen are either stingy or stupid. True, there may be the absence of the brilliancy which characterizes much of the English wit and humor, and of the inexpressible quality which is con tained in Hibernian fun; but for point of neatness one may look far before discovering anything to sur pass the shrewdness and playfulness to be found in the Scotch race. In fact, if Scotland had no wit and humor she would have been incapable of furnishing a man who employed such methods in construction as were introduced by the engineer of the Forth Bridge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.