"Dinna fash, lassie.

As a man, as a father, as an elder of our kirk, my corruption was raised, for I aye hated lying as a poor cowardly sin, so I called out, "Dinna believe him, auld gentleman; he's telling a parcel of lees.

WeelI dinna ken!

But I dinna care!

He was very angry; and, 'Kirsty,' said he, 'I dinna like thae youngsters to come about the house.'

"'I'm sure, sir,' said she, 'I dinna encourage them.' "'Weel, Kirsty,' said he, 'if that's the way, if ye hae nae objections, I'll marry ye mysel'.'

"'I dinna see what objections I should hae,' said she, and, without ony mair courtship, in a week or twa they were married; and, in course o' time, I was born.

o' the toun the nightwill ye come and tak' tea and supper wi' the wife and me, and a freend or twa?' "'I dinna care though I do,' says I; 'but I'm no just in a tea-drinkin' dress.' "'Ne'er mind the dress,' says he.

I dinna think she was sensible o' me takin' her by the hand; and I was just beginning to say again, 'I've taken the liberty,' when the auld wife had the sense and discretion to leave us by our-sel's.

I dinna say this to cast a damp upon your joy, nor that I doubt your affection for are another; but I say it as ane who has been a wife, and seen a good deal o' the world; an,' oh bairns!

No, Jeannie, unless your very souls be, as it were, cemented thegither, unless ye see something in him that ye see in naebody else, and unless he sees something in you that he sees in naebody else, dinna marry still.

Passionate lovers dinna aye mak' affectionate husbands.

However, David,' continued she, 'I dinna doubt but ye will mak' a gude husband; for ye're a sensible, and I really think a deservin' lad; and were it nae mair than your name, the name o' Stuart wad be a passport to my heart.

"'I hope, ma'am,' says I,and I was a guid deal nettled,'I hope, ma'am, ye dinna tak' me to be a drunkard.

I dinna mean to say that ye should never enter a company; but dinna mak' a practice o't.' "Weel, the wedding morning cam, and I really thocht it was a great blessin' folk hadna to be married every day.

I dinna mean to say that ye should never enter a company; but dinna mak' a practice o't.' "Weel, the wedding morning cam, and I really thocht it was a great blessin' folk hadna to be married every day.

She cam forward to me, an', poor thing, she kissed my cheek, and says she, 'Dinna distress yoursel', David, dearit cannot be helped nowlet us pray that this may be a lesson for the future.'

"Dinna be sae dooms downhearted as a' that.

"But ye dinna ken, though I do, how far he put his life in venture to save mine."

"And you tauld him," said Effie, "that ye wadna hear o' coming between me and death, and me no aughteen year auld yet?" "I dinna deserve this frae ye, Effie," said her sister, feeling the injustice of the reproach and compassion for the state of mind which dictated it.

I dinna like folk to be sae muckle better than ither folk; seldom comes gude o't.

" "I dinna think that's likely," said Saunders, shaking his head.

His reply indicated, I thought, that he felt about Cæsar or Rienzi very much as the Scotch Presbyterian Minister felt about Christ, when he was reminded of the corn-plucking on the Sabbath, and said, "Weel, I dinna think the better of him."

"I dinna understand it," he told her, "but I'm sure you was meant to hae them.

The menus, if carefully sustained, may prove very useful to those who "dinna ken."