Jimsy had educated himself, after the idea of writing something that the world would not willingly let die came to him, and he began his book before his education was complete.

So far as I know, he never wrote a line that had not to do with "The Millennium." He was ever a man sparing of his plural tenses, and "The Millennium" says "has" for "have"; a vain word, indeed, which Thrums would only have permitted as a poetical licence.
The one original character in the poem is the devil, of whom Jimsy gives a picture that is startling and graphic, and received the approval of the Auld Licht minister.
By trade Jimsy was a printer, a master-printer with no one under him, and he printed and bound his book, ten copies in all, as well as wrote it.

To print the poem took him, I dare say, nearly as long as to write it, and he set up the pages as they were written, one by one.

The book is only printed on one side of the leaf, and each page was produced separately like a little hand-bill.

Those who may pick up the book--but who will care to do so ?--will think that the author or his printer could not spell--but they would not do Jimsy that injustice if they knew the circumstances in which it was produced.