{"id":209,"date":"2013-03-07T16:08:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T21:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/?p=209"},"modified":"2013-03-07T16:08:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T21:08:48","slug":"yere-surly-far-wrang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/yere-surly-far-wrang\/","title":{"rendered":"Ye\u2019re surly far wrang."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-209 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/yere-surly-far-wrang\/sdf12\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/03\/SDF12-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/yere-surly-far-wrang\/teetotalin-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/03\/teetotalin1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/yere-surly-far-wrang\/w3r\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/03\/w3r-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Some of our chapbooks are less jovial and more philosophical. Published in 1842 at <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/ngrams\/graph?content=teetotal%2Cteetotaller%2Cteetotaler&amp;year_start=1800&amp;year_end=2000&amp;corpus=15&amp;smoothing=3&amp;share=\" target=\"_blank\">the beginning of the teetotal movement<\/a>, here&#8217;s a dialogue between two men on the effects of the corn laws during famine in the 1800s. I&#8217;m not a historian, so I found some extra research on the topic to be pretty interesting. Even without the context, the arguments presented by John, the abstinent Christian reformer, as to how productivity and national debt are all entwined in the propensity for drink of the everyday man, are even more entertaining when read aloud in that delightful rural dialect:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>T.<\/strong> Ah, noo John, are ye really gaun to tak a\u2019 the hair o&#8217; comfort us puir bodies hae left ? if it wasna for the dribble o&#8217; dram I get noo and than, I wad sink un\u2019er my affliction athegither; ye canna deny I\u2019m sure but it raised the spirits and mak\u2019s us cheery mony a time, when nae ither thing will do\u2019t.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>J.<\/strong> O yes, Thomas, I must confess it raises the spirits, and that to an awfu\u2019 degree, sometimes to 80, but next morning you will find them sink to 40, being 20 below par, and then what state do ye fin&#8217; yoursel\u2019 in ? do ye fin\u2019 your purse ony benter? do ye fin your head ony healer? your character ony better, or your conscience ony sounder, after wallowing in that sinfu\u2019 drink? I trow no, Thomas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more dialogues to rival Socrates, like the <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.mcgill.ca\/F\/?func=find-b&amp;find_code=SYS&amp;local_base=catalogue&amp;request=003695232\" target=\"_blank\">Dialogue between John and Thomas, on the corn laws, the charter, teetotalism, and the probable remedy for the present disstresses<\/a>, try <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.mcgill.ca\/F\/?func=find-b&amp;find_code=SYS&amp;local_base=catalogue&amp;request=003592500\" target=\"_blank\">The Bible of Divine Origin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of our chapbooks are less jovial and more philosophical. Published in 1842 at the beginning of the teetotal movement, here&#8217;s a dialogue between two men on the effects of the corn laws during famine in the 1800s. I&#8217;m not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/yere-surly-far-wrang\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}