As an example, a clergyman thought his people were making rather an unconscionable objection to his using a MS.

in delivering his sermon.

They urged, "What gars ye tak up your bit papers to the pu'pit ?" He replied that it was best, for really he could not remember his sermon, and must have his papers.

"Weel, weel, minister, then dinna expect that _we_ can remember them." Some of these encounters arise out of the old question of sleeping in church.

For example--"I see, James, that you tak a bit nap in the kirk," said a minister to one of his people; "can ye no tak a mull with you?
and when you become heavy an extra pinch would keep you up." "Maybe it wad," said James, "but pit you the sneeshin intil your sermon, minister, and maybe that'll serve the same purpose." As a specimen of the matter-of-fact view of religious questions frequently recorded of older ministers, let me adduce a well-authenticated account of a minister in a far up-hill parish in Deeside.