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Crieff in the Victorian Era by " Dixon " Printed  by  HK Brown, 15 King Street 1897 CRIEFF LIFE IN SEPTEMBER 1896 An Original Account To know and understand Crieff as it exists in the year   of the Diamond   Jubilee of   Her Majesty Queen Victoria ,it is necessary   in the first place    to have some   years’ experience   in the town , and in the second place   to have some sense of   observation . There are   casts, sets , cliques , and   circles , sufficient to make   India hide its face   in very shame; and there are more public houses   , doctors , lawyers , ministers , billiard rooms and churches than in almost   any   town of the same population   in either Scotland   , England   or Ireland. If you are in one set , you are not   in the other , and if you are in the other   , your principal duty is to stick   to it . You know the sets   by their unfailing attachment ; you know the circles   by their consequential airs ; you distinguish   the casts