Reproduction of the original: The Stickit Minister ́s Wooing and Other Galloway Stories by Samuel Rutherford Crockett

"The Stickit Minister's Wooing" by S. R. Crockett is a collection of humor stories set in Scotland. The major goal behind these tales is to portray the social life and customs of the 19th century. S. R. Crockett (1859-1914) was a Scottish novelist. Crockett was one of the new breeds of professional writers emerging in the late 19th century whose work was written for the emerging popular 'mass market' readership. As one of the foremost celebrity authors, he divided literary critics both his own time and subsequently.

Set in the South Pacific, this novel is written in the form of an autobiography, told by Hilary Telfer. Fascinated by tales of sailors and South Sea Traders, he leaves Sydney at the age of seventeen to take up a life at sea. The novel follows his adventures and provides a commentary on the trade between the islands and the practice of "blackbirding" that was rife at the time.-Wikipedia.