O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!

"I wad na hae' thought that o' Michael," he said, "for the man had an honest way with him, and was so seeming valiant, that I could na hae' supposed him capable of proving a desairter.

Mr. Whitmarsh wadded his old gun with it.

I tempit him wi' kail and meat, but he wad tak naething, and keepit me frae feeding the beast, and he was aye gurrin', and grup, gruppin' me by the legs.

Iv you will tell me wad dad mague you cry, I will tell youon ma second word of honor'she rolled up her fist'juz wad I thing about dad 'Sieur Frowenfel!'".

An' I'se warrant, gin the minister was gettin' lowse frae his tether, he wad jist tak the same road.

"He wad never täak wi the betther class o' foakbut he'd coom mony a time, an hae a crack wi my missus an me.

Thir breeks o' mine, my only pair, That ance were plush, o' guid blue hair, I wad hae gi'en them off my hurdies, For ae blink o' the bonie burdies! But withered beldams, auld and droll, Rigwoodie hags wad spean a foal, Louping and flinging on a crummock, I wonder didna turn thy stomach!

My faither was on a strong mare, and I was on a bit powney; and amang the cattle there was a camstairy three-year-auld bull, that wad neither hup nor drive.

To which the other quietly replied, "Weel, his tawlent wad justifee the inference."

"Madame Carraze," said Monsieur Vignevielle, "doze kine of note wad you 'an' me juz now is bein' contrefit.

"Tell me," he said, heavily, wadding his mind with cotton, for fear some lightness should percolate through it.

It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion; What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion!

It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion; What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, An' ev'n devotion! FROM EPISTLE TO J. LAPRAIK I am nae poet, in a sense, But just a rhymer like by chance, An' hae to learning nae pretence; Yet what the matter?

" "And which peasts wad your honour pe for having?" "Whylet me seethe two blackthe dun oneyon doddyhim with the twisted hornand brockitHow much by the head?

The very pulpit floor gaed down wi' me, the kirk wa's gaed round about, and I thought the very crown o' my head wad pitch on the top o' the precentor.

An' I'se warrant, gin the minister was gettin' lowse frae his tether, he wad jist tak the same road.

I keened a' the time that America wad tak' her stand on the side

" "Ah, Miché,"Madame Delphine might have tried a thousand times again without ever succeeding half so well in lifting the curtain upon the whole, sweet, tender, old, old-fashioned truth,"Ah, Miché, she wone tell me!" "Bud, anny'ow, Madame, wad you thing?" "Miché," she replied, looking up again with a tear standing in either eye, and then looking down once more as she began to speak, "I thingI thing she's lonesome.

"My Lord," commenced John, in his purest Doric, at the same time pushing up his spectacles to his brow and hitching his gown over his shoulders, "I wad hae thocht naething o't (the action), had hooses been a new invention, and my clients been caught ouvertly impingin' on the patent richts o' the inventors!" Of Lord Gardenstone (Francis Garden)

" On the same subject of beadle peculiarities, I have received from Mrs. Mearns of Kineff Manse an exquisitely characteristic illustration of beadle professional habits being made to bear upon the tender passion:A certain beadle had fancied the manse housemaid, but at a loss for an opportunity to declare himself, one daya Sundaywhen his duties were ended, he looked sheepish, and said, "Mary, wad ye tak a turn, Mary?"

"He wad never täak wi the betther class o' foakbut he'd coom mony a time, an hae a crack wi my missus an me.

"'Deed," said the laird, very coolly, "I wad ha' wondered if ye had, for it's ten years sin' I saw him gang in there.

One day, while I was restin' in my dressing room, word was brocht to me that a bit lassie who looked as if she micht be in sair trouble wad ha' a word wi' me.

" "But Phemthat's my eldest dochter, ye kenshe wad ha' me gang alang.