A memoir of the life and sayings of Farquhar, the completely eccentric 'Ross-shire Wanderer' who was nicknamed 'Fearchair-a-Ghunna' because of his passion for guns and gunpowder. Farquhar, dressed in his fantastic garb of old clothes and rags ornamented with guns, pebbles, links of chain and scraps of paper, led his vagabond life at a time when such travellers were often welcomed in the villages they visited. His witty and often pointed remarks, quoted here both in their original Gaelic and in an English translation, sprang from his simpleminded approach to life and other people and were obviously relished and oft repeated in his native Ross-shire. This is a collection of anecdotes about a true 'gentleman of the road', a famous character of the old days in the Highlands who was much respected in his own time. It is rich in details about a way of life which was already almost past when the book was first published in 1881.
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