In great wrath, he ordered the door to be shut, that no one might escape, and insisted on every one present being searched to discover the delinquent.

One of the sisters, in consternation, whispered to the other, "Esther, ye hae nae gotten the spune ?" to which she replied, "Na; but I hae gotten Mrs.Siddons in my pocket." She had been struck by a miniature of the great actress, and had quietly pocketed it.

The cautious reply of the sister was, "Then just drop her, Esther." One of the sisterhood, a connection of my own, had much of this dry Scottish humour.

She had a lodging in the house of a respectable grocer; and on her niece most innocently asking, "if she was not very fond of her landlord," in reference to the excellence of her apartments and the attention he paid to her comfort, she demurred to the question on the score of its propriety, by replying, "Fond of my landlord! that would be an _unaccountable_ fondness." An amusing account was given of an interview and conversation between this lady and the provost of Montrose.

She had demurred at paying some municipal tax with which she had been charged, and the provost, anxious to prevent her getting into difficulty on the subject, kindly called to convince her of the fairness of the claim, and the necessity of paying it.