"You serve the deevil," said she.

"Me!" said the girl; "na, na, I dinna serve the deevil; I serve ae single lady." A baby was out with the nurse, who walked it up and down the garden.
"Is't a laddie or a lassie ?" said the gardener.

"A laddie," said the maid.

"Weel," says he, "I'm glad o' that, for there's ower mony women in the world." "Hech, man," said Jess, "div ye no ken there's aye maist sawn o' the best crap ?" The answers of servants used curiously to illustrate habits and manners of the time,--as the economical modes of her mistress's life were well touched by the lass who thus described her ways and domestic habits with her household: "She's vicious upo' the wark; but eh, she's vary mysterious o' the victualling." A country habit of making the gathering of the congregation in the churchyard previous to and after divine service an occasion for gossip and business, which I remember well, is thoroughly described in the following:--A lady, on hiring a servant girl in the country, told her, as a great indulgence, that she should have the liberty of attending the church every Sunday, but that she would be expected to return home always immediately on the conclusion of service.

The lady, however, rather unexpectedly found a positive objection raised against this apparently reasonable arrangement.