"Wha-a-at?" choked Dave.

The children of Galloway play at hide-and-seek with a little black-topped flower which is known by them as the Davie-drap, meantime repeating the following rhyme: "Within the bounds of this I hap My black and bonnie Davie-drap: Wha is he, the cunning ane, To me my Davie-drap will fin'?" This plant, it has been suggested, being the cuckoo grass (Luzula campestris), which so often figures in children's games and rhymes.

Little wat ye wha's coming, Donald Gun and a's coming.

When they had sung the last line, Mr. Bright, without pausing to take breath, struck into "Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled," and they followed his lead.

"And wha is his heir, think ye?" continued his questioner.

"Wha ever said I was the mother of Henney Hislop?" "Everybody," replied he.

"'Man,' says I to the flesher the next time I saw him, 'wha was yon Miss Murray?'

"A short time after this, a relation o' my mither's, wha had been a merchant in London, dee'd, and it was said we were his nearest heirs; and that as he had left nae will, if we applied, we would get the property, which was worth about five thousand pounds.

And in I walked; but I declare I didna ken whether the floor carried me, or I carried the floor; and wha should I see but an auld leddy wi' spectaclesthe maiden's mistress, sure enough, though no mine, but my mother-in-law that was to be.

Nae true woman will condescend to love ony man lang, wha can find society he prefers to hers in an alehouse.

Some o' your book-learned folk wad ca' this conduct philosophy in Jeannie; but I, wha kenned every thought in her heart, was aware that it proceeded from her resignation as a true Christian, and her affection as a dutiful wife.

One fine day in the summer of 1801, as I was busily engaged working in the field at Ettrick House, Wat Shiel came over to me and said, that "I boud gang away down to the Ramseycleuch as fast as my feet could carry me, for there war some gentlemen there wha wantit to speak to me.

" "Wha can be at the Ramseycleuch that wants me, Wat?"

"And wha' may your master be, friend?" "What!

"Wha' tauld ye that, Jeannie?" "It was ane that kenned what he was saying weel eneugh," said Jeannie.

Tell me wha has taen't away, or what they hae dune wi't!"

"And wha did you sell it to?"

"You dd idiot, ye did na' gie away the powny without getting the siller for't; wha was he?"

hello, Colonel, what's this, wha-a-at's this?" He picked up and exposed to view a small object which he saw lying on the hall floor.

"Wha's the good of a square sungar if you stands up in it?

" "The wha-at?

and when I get home the wind moans down the chimney, 'O-o-o-gh-h! wha-a-t have you do-o-one with your summer's w-a-A-a-ges!"

"Who are youse, an' wha's the row?" As the quickest way to sober the man, Nick showed his shield.

Is ma nose queer-like?' 'Ay,' Macgregor unwillingly replied, and, with inspiration, added consolingly, 'But it was aye that, Wullie.' IV THE RING 'Wha' was chasin' ye?'

It's weel seen that men are scarce the noo.' 'Mind wha ye're insultin'!'