Robert Louis Stevenson 
Child’s Garden of Verses 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. IN the eighteenth century there came a Scot to London. It is only the dullest of races that ever held, as it yet holds, the fancy that Scotland is not a land of humour ists. But nothing, after all, as George Eliot saw, divides mankind so much as a different sense or taste in humour.1 The Scot who came to London was of course a humourist, but he had not quite the geniality that we associate to-day with his surname.