We scarcely care to see our Dominie treated thus.

His creator had the very lowest opinion of the modern playwright's craft, and probably held that stage humour could not be too palpable and practical.
Lockhart writes (v.

130): "What share the novelist himself had in this first specimen of what he used to call 'the art of Terryfying' I cannot exactly say; but his correspondence shows that the pretty song of the 'Lullaby' was not his only contribution to it; and I infer that he had taken the trouble to modify the plot and rearrange for stage purposes a considerable part of the original dialogue." Friends of the Dominie may be glad to know, perhaps on Scott's own testimony, that he was an alumnus of St.Andrews.

"I was boarded for twenty pence a week at Luckie Sour-kail's, in the High Street of St.Andrews." He was also fortunate enough to hold a bursary in St.Leonard's College, which, however, is a blunder.

St.Leonard's and St.Salvator's had already been merged in the United College (1747).