Aberdeen, 1810." With portrait.

Also twenty-sixth edition, of 1829.

I should suppose this account of a family fool was a fair representation of a good specimen of the class.

He was evidently of defective intellect, but at times showed the odd humour and quick conclusion which so often mark the disordered brain.

I can only now give two examples taken from his history:--Having found a horse-shoe on the road, he met Mr.Craigie, the minister of St.Fergus, and showed it to him, asking, in pretended ignorance, what it was.