A similar equivoque upon the double meaning of "Deuk" in Scottish language supplied material for a poor woman's honest compliment to a benevolent Scottish nobleman.

John, Duke of Roxburghe, was one day out riding, and at the gate of Floors he was accosted by an importunate old beggar woman.

He gave her half-a-crown, which pleased her so much that she exclaimed, "Weel's me on your _guse_ face, for Duke's ower little tae ca' ye." A very curious list may be made of words used in Scotland in a sense which would be quite unintelligible to Southerns.

Such applications are going out, but I remember them well amongst the old-fashioned people of Angus and the Mearns quite common in conversation.

I subjoin some specimens:-- _Bestial_ signifies amongst Scottish agriculturists cattle generally, the whole aggregate number of beasts on the farm.