CHAPTER THE SEVENTH.
ON SCOTTISH STORIES OF WIT AND HUMOUR.
The portion of our subject which we proposed under the head of "Reminiscences of Scottish Stories of Wit or Humour," yet remains to be considered.

This is closely connected with the question of Scottish dialect and expressions; indeed, on some points hardly separable, as the wit, to a great extent, proceeds from the quaint and picturesque modes of expressing it.

But here we are met by a difficulty.

On high authority it has been declared that no such thing as wit exists amongst us.

What has no existence can have no change.