He happened to arrive at a station upon the eve of St.Andrew's Day, and received an invitation to join a Scottish dinner party in commemoration of old Scotland.

There was a great deal of Scottish enthusiasm.

There were _seven_ sheep-heads (singed) down the table; and Lord Lothian told me that after dinner he sang with great applause "The Laird o' Cockpen." Another anecdote arising out of Scotsmen meeting in distant lands, is rather of a more serious character, and used to be told with exquisite humour by the late lamented Dr.Norman Macleod.

A settler in Australia, who for a long time had heard nothing of his Scottish kith and kin, was delighted at the arrival of a countryman direct from his own part of the country.

When he met with him, the following conversation took place between them:--_Q_.