It appeared there were two cousins of this name, both corpulent men.

When it was announced that Mr.Thomas Thomson was dead, an Aberdeen friend of the family asked, "Fatten Thamas Thamson ?" He was informed that it was a fat Thamas Thamson, upon which the Aberdeen query naturally arose, "Ay, but fatten fat Thamas Thamson ?" Another illustration of the Aberdeen dialect is thus given:--"The Pope o' Rome requires a bull to do his wark, but the Emperor o' France made a coo dee't a'"-- a cow do it all--a pun on _coup d'etat_.

A young lady from Aberdeen had been on a visit to Montrose, and was disappointed at finding there a great lack of beaux, and balls, and concerts.

This lack was not made up to her by the invitations which she had received to dinner parties.

And she thus expressed her feelings on the subject in her native dialect, when asked how she liked Montrose: "Indeed there's neither men nor meesic, and fat care I for meat ?" There is no male society and no concerts, and what do I care for dinners?
The dialect and the local feelings of Aberdeen were said to have produced some amusement in London, as displayed by the lady of the Provost of Aberdeen when accompanying her husband going up officially to the capital.