To celebrate his retirement, mild-mannered grocer Dickson McCunn has planned a walking tour of the Scottish countryside. However, the journey that starts out as a bucolic gambol soon spirals into a remarkable -- and endlessly entertaining -- series...
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To celebrate his retirement, mild-mannered grocer Dickson McCunn has planned a walking tour of the Scottish countryside. However, the journey that starts out as a bucolic gambol soon spirals into a remarkable -- and endlessly entertaining -- series of mishaps and misadventures, including a harebrained scheme to abduct and ransom a Russian princess. Will McCunn make it back from his holiday in one piece?
Title; Contents; Prologue; Chapter I - How a Retired Provision Merchant Felt the Impulse of Spring; Chapter II - Of Mr. John Heritage and the Difference in Points of View; Chapter III - How Childe Roland and Another Came to the Dark Tower; Chapter IV - Dougal; Chapter V - Of the Princess in the Tower; Chapter VI - How Mr. McCunn Departed with Relief and Returned with Resolution; Chapter VII - Sundry Doings in the Mirk; Chapter VIII - How a Middle-Aged Crusader Accepted a Challenge; Chapter IX - The First Battle of the Cruives; Chapter X - Deals with an Escape and a Journey
Chapter XI - Gravity Out of BedChapter XII - How Mr. McCunn Committed an Assault Upon an Ally; Chapter XIII - The Coming of the Danish Brig; Chapter XIV - The Second Battle of the Cruives; Chapter XV - The Gorbals Die-Hards Go into Action; Chapter XVI - In Which a Princess Leaves a Dark Tower and a Provision Merchant Returns to His Family
