Seeing a chance to make up for his bad market, and comforted with the assurance that he was unknown there, he undertook the office, executed the condemned, and got the fee.

When moving off with the money, he was twitted at as a "mean beggarly Scot," doing for money what no _Englishman_ would.

With a grin and quiet glee, he only replied, "I'll hang ye a' at the price." Some Scotsmen, no doubt, have a very complacent feeling regarding the superiority of their countrymen, and make no hesitation in proclaiming their opinion.

I have always admired the quaint expression of such belief in a case which has recently been reported to me.

A young Englishman had taken a Scottish shooting-ground, and enjoyed his mountain sport so much as to imbibe a strong partiality for his northern residence and all its accompaniments.