62/105 I then return them without buying them, which I think a capital _dodge_. I hope you will sport it for my sake at your first _tea and turn out_. I had rather see him take his cigar when we are walking. You will be told, I daresay, that I sometimes take a _weed_ myself. It is not true, dear aunty." Before leaving the question of change in Scottish expressions, it may be proper to add a few words on the subject of Scottish _dialects_--_i.e._, on the differences which exist in different counties or localities in the Scottish tongue itself. |