"Oh, Mr. Begg," said a woman to me, for whom I was weighing two grains of calomel for a child, "dinna be so mean wi' it; it is for a poor faitherless bairn.

'Ma breeks is nane o' your business, neither.' 'Ach, Wullie, dinna be a wean.

' 'Dinna be sae free wi' yer hammerin's, ma lord!