Boyd's contributions to a volume which ought to be popular with Scots in every part of the world, are full of pawky humour, and their realism is so pronounced that we seem to have known the models in the life.

Not a pawky wee burn, like this Aberglaslyn thing.

" No. 15. ROAMIN' IN THE GLOAMIN' by Sir Harry Lauder Daily Chronicle."It is so vivid that it gives the impression of not being written at all, but spoken in that vivid, pawky, homely way which makes him 'get over' the footlights as no other artist can do.

This was a fine, quiet, pawky pair I found at Gatehouse-of-Fleet.

Nothing could better illustrate the quiet pawky style for which our countrymen have been distinguished, than the old story of the piper and the wolves.

"Oh, he just said he didna ken; and what was mair he didna care!" I have received the four following admirable anecdotes, illustrative of dry Scottish pawky humour, from an esteemed minister of the Scottish Church, the Rev. W. Mearns of Kinneff.

A queer-looking pawky chield, whenever the glass came to his turn, remarked most gravely, "I think we wadna be the waur o' some water," taking care, however, never to add any of the simple element, but quietly drank off his glass.

It has been suggested by my esteemed friend, Dr. W. Lindsay Alexander, that Scottish anecdotes deal too exclusively with the shrewd, quaint, and pawky humour of our countrymen, and have not sufficiently illustrated the deep pathos and strong loving-kindness of the "kindly Scot,"qualities which, however little appreciated across the Border, abound in Scottish poetry and Scottish life.

There was occasionally a pawky semi-sarcastic humour in the replies of some of the ladies we speak of, that was quite irresistible, of which I have from a friend a good illustration in an anecdote well known at the time.

Her father had been a souter and a pawky chiel enough, but was doited for many years, and her mother was sair dottled.

When I speak of changes in such Scottish humour which have taken place, I refer to a particular sort of humour, and I speak of the sort of feeling that belongs to Scottish pleasantry,which is sly, and cheery, and pawky.

" I think the following is about as good a sample of what we call Scotch "pawky" as any

" There was a good deal both of the pawky and the canny in the following anecdote, which I have from an honoured lady of the south of Scotland:"There was an old man who always rode a donkey to his work, and tethered him while he worked on the roads, or whatever else it might be.