etc.
The following story of pulpit criticism by a beadle used to be told, I am assured, by the late Rev.Dr.Andrew Thomson:-- A clergyman in the country had a stranger preaching for him one day, and meeting his beadle, he said to him, "Well, Saunders, how did you like the sermon to-day ?" "I watna, sir; it was rather ower plain and simple for me.

I like thae sermons best that jumbles the joodgment and confoonds the sense.

Od, sir, I never saw ane that could come up to yoursell at that." The epithet "canny" has frequently been applied to our countrymen, not in a severe or invidious spirit, but as indicating a due regard to personal interest and safety.

In the larger edition of Jamieson (see edition of 1840) I find there are no fewer than eighteen meanings given of this word.

The following extract from a provincial paper, which has been sent me, will furnish a good illustration.