" "But you could never wear yours, though ye had ane," said Hendry to her about the "cloak with beads"; "ye would juist hae to lock it awa in the drawers."

I did, wi' puir Menteith, an' he deed juist like the ithers.

That's juist what they a' said," remarked the keeper, with an apprehensive look upon his face.

"The Whispers are only h'ard at ae spot, whaur ye've juist stood.

"But whom did he swear at?" was the inquiry made of the narrator, who replied, "Oh, he didna sweer at ony thing particular, but juist stude in ta middle of ta road and swoor at lairge."

He asked what was the object of making such a din, to which the answer was, "Oh, juist, my lord to ca' the workmen together!"

"Ou, juist Sandy and me," was the quiet rejoinder.

"Ou," said the gardener, "I'll dae that, my lord; there's juist

"Ou (with an indescribable, but easily imaginable toss of the head), he was angry at me, an' misca'd me, an' I said I was juist as the Lord had made me, an'" "Well, Tibbie?"

o' the Queensferry wi' some ither folks to a fair, ye ken; but juist whene'er I pat my fit in the boat, the boat gae wallop, and my heart gae a loup, and I thocht I'd gang oot o' my judgment athegither; so says I, Na, na, ye gang awa by yoursells to tither side, and I'll bide here till sic times as ye come awa back."

"'Deed, Robby, then," was the quiet answer, "ye needna be sae nice, he'll juist tak' ye as ye are

she juist felled hersell at Craigo wi' straeberries and 'ream!"

The Duke of Newcastle having asked the Provost with what kind of shot the town-guard commanded by Porteous had loaded their muskets, received the unexpected reply, "Ou, juist sic as ane shutes dukes and sic like fules wi'."

Skinner took no part in it, till one minister remarked to him, "The great faut I hae to your prayer-book is that ye use the Lord's Prayer sae aften,ye juist mak a dishclout o't."

"Weel," he said, "I'm jest thinkin', my lad, ye're nae Scotsman; but I'll tell ye what ye areye're juist an impruived Englishman.

juist ye come up wi' me.

After he had been extricated and quieted, when asked why he put his head there, he said, "It was juist to look on[170] wi' anither woman.

'Oh, but A'm juist frae there,' Weel, the angel sends for the Apostle Peter, and Peter comes wi' his key and opens the yett, and says to me, 'Honest man, do you come frae the auld toun o' Ayr?'

Watty's cool accost speedily upset the plan:"Weel, Maister Ghaist, is this a general rising, or are ye juist takin' a daunder frae yer grave by yersell?"

the noo: he's juist back the road there a bit, choking some geese till a man.

"Juist sae," quietly replied Mr. Dunlop; "I was e'en thinkin' it was geyan toom.

"Oo, juist what gars your tongue wag; it's fashed wi' a wakeness.

"Oh, juist wauken Lord Elphinstone."

'I was not juist sae sune doited as some o' your Lordships.'

'She juist felled hersel at Graigo wi' straeberries and 'ream.'