Lessons From a Shoemaker's Stool. E-book. Formato PDF John Kerr   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

While in his neighbourhood a friend of mine gave me such an account of him as made me resolve to see him if possible. By making a start an hour earlier than was necessary for my regular duty, I had no difficulty in making out my visit to him. His workshop being pointed out to me — a humble one-storied house with a thatch roof, and situated in quite a rural district — I went up to the door and knocked.

History of Curling, Scotland's Ain Game, and Fifty Years of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club. E-book. Formato PDF John Kerr   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

IN view of the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club in 1888, a Special Committee was appointed at the Meeting of the previous year to consider what should be done in the way of celebrating the Club's Jubilee. Among the suggestions sent up in the Report of this Committee, and adopted by the Club, was one to this effect That a Literary Committee be appointed, with powers, for the purpose of preparing a sketch of the Royal Club's history during the last fifty years. Of this Literary Committee, the Rev. John Kerr was appointed Convener, and the preparation of the volume was thereafter entrusted to him to be carried through under the Committee's supervision.