On coming away some of the party could not find their hats, and my uncle was jocularly asking the waiter, whom he knew to be a _Deeside_ man, "Whar are our bonnets, Jeems ?" To which he replied, "'Deed, I mind the day when I had neither hat nor bonnet." There is an odd and original way of putting a matter sometimes in Scotch people, which is irresistibly comic, although by the persons nothing comic is intended; as for example, when in 1786 Edinburgh was illuminated on account of the recovery of George III.

from severe illness.

In a house where great preparation was going on for the occasion, by getting the candles fixed in tin sconces, an old nurse of the family, looking on, exclaimed, "Ay, it's a braw time for the cannel-makers when the king is sick, honest man!" Scottish farmers of the old school were a shrewd and humorous race, sometimes not indisposed to look with a little jealousy upon their younger brethren, who, on their part, perhaps, showed their contempt for the old-fashioned ways.

I take the following example from the columns of the _Peterhead Sentinel_, just as it appeared--June 14, 1861:-- "AN ANECDOTE FOR DEAN EAMSAY .-- The following characteristic and amusing anecdote was communicated to us the other day by a gentleman who happened to be a party to the conversation detailed below.

This gentleman was passing along a road not a hundred miles from Peterhead one day this week.