A lady, who had taken a kind charge of him, accompanied him to the theatre, and in the most thrilling scene of Kemble's acting, what is usually termed the dagger scene in Macbeth, she turned to the farmer with a whisper, "Is not that fine ?" to which the confidential reply was, "Oh, mem, its verra _enterteening!_" Enterteening expressing his idea of the effect produced.
_Pig_, in old-fashioned Scotch, was always used for a coarse earthenware jar or vessel.

In the Life of the late Patrick Tytler, the amiable and gifted historian of Scotland, there occurs an amusing exemplification of the utter confusion of ideas caused by the use of Scottish phraseology.
The family, when they went to London, had taken with them an old Scottish servant who had no notion of any terms beside her own.

She came in one day greatly disturbed at the extremely backward state of knowledge of domestic affairs amongst the Londoners.

She had been to so many shops and could not get "a great broon pig to haud the butter in." From a relative of the family I have received an account of a still worse confusion of ideas, caused by the inquiry of a Mrs.Chisholm of Chisholm, who died in London in 1825, at an advanced age.

She had come from the country to be with her daughter, and was a genuine Scottish lady of the old school.