The friend of my informant was walking in a street of Perth, when, to his horror, he saw a workman fall from a roof where he was mending slates, right upon the pavement.

By extraordinary good fortune he was not killed, and on the gentleman going up to his assistance, and exclaiming, with much excitement, "God bless me, are you much hurt ?" all the answer he got was the cool rejoinder, "On the contrary, sir." A similar matter-of fact answer was made by one of the old race of Montrose humorists.

He was coming out of church, and in the press of the kirk _skailing_, a young man thoughtlessly trod on the old gentleman's toe, which was tender with corns.

He hastened to apologise, saying, "I am very sorry, sir; I beg your pardon." The only acknowledgment of which was the dry answer, "And ye've as muckle need, sir." An old man marrying a very young wife, his friends rallied him on the inequality of their ages.

"She will be near me," he replied, "to close my een." "Weel," remarked another of the party, "I've had twa wives, and they _opened my een_." One of the best specimens of cool Scottish matter-of-fact view of things has been supplied by a kind correspondent, who narrates it from his own personal recollection.
The back windows of the house where he was brought up looked upon the Greyfriars Church that was burnt down.