But now the supper crowns their simple hoard: The healsome parritch, chief o' Scotia's food: The soupe their only hawkie does afford, That 'yont the hallan snugly chows her cood.

Parritch, porridge.

"The halesome parritch, chief o' Scotia's food.

" In these days of tea and white bread it is to be feared that the "halesome parritch" is now very far removed from the honoured place of chief, and it must be more than a coincidence which connects the physical degeneracy of the Scottish working people with the supplanting of the porridge-pot by the tea-pot.

And the parritch and a' the other Scottish dishes tickle my palate something grand.

They paid for the parritch I had for breakfast, and the bit o' beef I'll be eating for my dinner.

And they needed parritch in their wee stomachs against the morning's chill.

The "peremptory diets" which Mr. MACQUISTEN urged upon the attention of the SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY as a remedy for the grievances of Glasgow's financiers are not, as you might suppose, a synonym for forcible feeding; nor have they anything to do with the substitutes for "parritch" to which, as I gathered from Mr. STURROCK, the people of Scotland are being obliged to resort owing to the high price of oatmeal.

"If the parritch-pan," she at last burst out"If the parritch-pan gangs at that, what will the kail-pat gang for?" An ancestor of Sir Walter Scott joined the Stuart Prince in 1715, and, with his brother, was engaged in that unfortunate adventure which ended in a skirmish and captivity at Preston.

"If the parritch-pan," she at last burst out"If the parritch-pan gangs at that, what will the kail-pat gang for?" An ancestor of Sir Walter Scott joined the Stuart Prince in 1715, and, with his brother, was engaged in that unfortunate adventure which ended in a skirmish and captivity at Preston.

All she would answer was, "Weel, weel, some fowk like parritch and some like paddocks.

'Some fowk like parritch, and some like paddocks.'