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A Drunk Woman Looks at the Thistle and The Tobacco Merchant's Lawyer at Oran Mor, Glasgow  

Dalmellington, an innocent among the knaves of 18th-century Glasgow's tobacco merchants and, whisper it, slave merchants. . . .

The tenor of Glasgow at that time, when the city was making its first fortune, clearly attracts Heggie, as well as the moral shortcomings of its merchant class. Bringing it all back home also allows him to have fun with a soothsayer called Madame Zapatar and her preposterous prophesies - such as banning the smoking of tobacco in public places.

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