we saw him gae doun the loaning afore the shealing, and here he maun needs be." "Aweel, sirs," I exclaimed, "ye see there isna ony creatur here, our nainsell's out-taken; seek again an ye winna creed a bodie; may be the bogle is jumpit into the pot on the rundle-tree ower the ingle, or creepit into the meal ark or aiblins it scoupit thro' the hole as ye cam in at the door.

The people of Isna, in Upper Egypt, affirm that there is a king crocodile as there is a queen bee.

"AH, BUT YE KEN, A CAKE O' THIS SIZE ISNA SAE SOON EATEN AS YE MAY THENK.

The man who works isna satisfied.

but isna he a queer man, that Doctor, he'll neither speak to God nor man.