He's are o' my _poor roll_; I gie'd him a shilling just last Sabbath." A worthy old Seceder used to ride from Gargunnock to Bucklyvie every Sabbath to attend the Burgher kirk.

One day as he rode past the parish kirk of Kippen, the elder at the plate accosted him, "I'm sure, John, it's no like the thing to see you ridin' in sic a doon-pour o' rain sae far by to thae Seceders.

Ye ken the mercifu' man is mercifu' to his beast.

Could ye no step in by ?" "Weel," said John, "I wadna care sae muckle about stablin' my beast inside, but it's anither thing mysel' gain' in." The Rev.Dr.George Lawson of Selkirk acted for many years as theological tutor to the Secession Church.

One day, on entering the Divinity Hall, he overheard a student remark that the professor's wig was uncombed.