"Whae's that faun ?" he inquired.

"'Deed," quoth Hairy, "I witna an it be na your honour." There is a peculiarity connected with what we have considered Scotch humour.

It is more common for Scotsmen to associate their own feelings with _national_ events and national history than for Englishmen.

Take as illustrations the following, as being perhaps as good as any:--The Rev.
Robert Scott, a Scotsman who forgets not Scotland in his southern vicarage, and whom I have named before as having sent me some good reminiscences, tells me that, at Inverary, some thirty years ago, he could not help overhearing the conversation of some Lowland cattle-dealers in the public room in which he was.

The subject of the bravery of our navy being started, one of the interlocutors expressed his surprise that Nelson should have issued his signal at Trafalgar in the terms, "_England expects_," etc.