As a type and representative of that phraseology, we would specially recommend a study of our Scottish proverbs.

In fact, in Scottish proverbs will be found an epitome of the Scottish phraseology, which is peculiar and characteristic.

I think it quite clear that there are proverbs exclusively Scottish, and as we find embodied in them traits of Scottish character, and many peculiar forms of Scottish thought and Scottish language, sayings of this kind, once so familiar, should have a place in our Scottish Reminiscences.

Proverbs are literally, in many instances, becoming _reminiscences_.

They now seem to belong to that older generation whom we recollect, and who used them in conversation freely and constantly.