Ae market-night Tam had got planted unco right, Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely, Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely; And at his elbow, Souter Johnie, His ancient, trusty, drouthy cronie: Tam lo'ed him like a very brither; They had been fou for weeks thegither.

Then let us pray that come it may (As come it will for a' that), That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, Shall bear the gree, an' a' that: For a' that, an' a' that, It's comin yet for a' that, That man to man, the world o'er, Shall brithers be for a' that.

Brither, brother.

But ye ken, my friend, I'm speaking to you as a brither; it was an unco'-like business for an elder, not only to gang till a play, which is ane of the deevil's rendevouses, but to gan there in a state of liquor, making yourself a world's wonder, and you an elder of our kirk!

"But it wouldn't have been so happy if the defender of his kindred hadn't slaved on the high seas 'for to maintain his brither and me,' like Henry Martin in the ballad.

If he's no your grandfaither, he'll be your faither, or your brither, or your cousin.

" "My faither or my brither, or my cousin!" repeated Mr. Weft.

"I maun tell ye plainly, frien', that I hae neither faither, nor brither, nor cousin of ony description on this side of the grave.

" How admirably this last line describes that sudden solution of the hostile elements in human nature-that swift sense of unity in society, produced by some glad tidings or great public enthusiasm, when for an hour the Millennium is anticipated, and the poet's wish, that "Man wi' man, the warld o'er, Shall brithers be, for a' that," is fulfilled!

Ye've got a dacent fayther an' mither an' brither an' sister; ye've got a dacent uncle; ye've got a dacent girl. . . .

We'll be payin' for to see ye in pictur' hooses yetthe Brithers Basher!

" Hear, land o' cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnny Groat's; If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it: A chiel's amang you taking notes,

In all varieties of lands and climates their hearts ever turn towards the "land o' cakes and brither Scots."

"Oh, dinna ye ken?" said the man, under a strong sense of his own importance, "I'm the corp's brither?" Curious scenes took place at funerals where there was, in times gone by, an unfortunate tendency to join with such solemnities more attention to festal entertainment than was becoming.

'Corp's brither' at a funeral.