"But why not, Donald ?" she answered; "it was _very wrong_; how can you expect to get better if you do not help yourself with the remedies which heaven provides for you ?" "_V_right or _V_rang," said Donald, "it wadna gang _wast_ in spite o' me." In all the north country, it is always said, "I'm ganging east or west," etc., and it happened that Donald on his sick bed was lying east and west, his feet pointing to the latter direction, hence his reply to indicate that he could not swallow the medicine! We may fancy the amusement of the officers of a regiment in the West Indies, at the innocent remark of a young lad who had just joined from Scotland.

On meeting at dinner, his salutation to his Colonel was, "Anither het day, Cornal," as if "het days" were in Barbadoes few and far between, as they were in his dear old stormy cloudy Scotland.

Or take the case of a Scottish saying, which indicated at once the dialect and the economical habits of a hardy and struggling race.

A young Scotchman, who had been some time in London, met his friend recently come up from the north to pursue his fortune in the great metropolis.

On discussing matters connected with their new life in London, the more experienced visitor remarked upon the greater _expenses_ there than in the retired Scottish town which they had left.