Contents

Foreword: Letter to My Editor

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He knew him well

An old pub near the Angel

Nice to be Nice

Remember Young Cecil

No longer the warehouseman

Busted Scotch

Acid

Learning the Story

Away in Airdrie

The hitchhiker

Wee Horrors

Roofsliding

Not not while the giro

the paperbag

In a betting shop to the rear of Shaftesbury Avenue

O jesus, here come the dwarfs

A Nightboilerman’s notes

Old Francis

The one with the dog

Forgetting to mention Allende

Cute Chick!

The Small Family

Half an hour before he died

The Red Cockatoos

Dum vivimus, vivamus

Getting Outside

Greyhound for Breakfast

Pictures

A walk in the park

A situation

A woman and two men

Lassies are trained that way

Street-sweeper

That thread

by the burn

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Acknowledgments