I'm are o' the Scots wha hae na, or I wadna be here the nicht.
He would not have stayed at home if he had been one of the "Scots wha hae." I am assured that the genuineness of the following anecdote is unquestionable, as my informant received it from the person to whom it occurred.

A popular Anglican Nonconformist minister was residing with a family in Glasgow while on a visit to that city, whither he had gone on a deputation from the Wesleyan Missionary Society.

After dinner, in reply to an invitation to partake of some fine fruit, he mentioned to the family a curious circumstance concerning himself--viz.

that he had never in his life tasted an apple, pear, grape, or indeed any kind of green fruit.

This fact seemed to evoke considerable surprise from the company, but a cautious Scotsman, of a practical, matter-of-fact turn of mind, who had listened with much unconcern, drily remarked, "It's a peety but ye had been in Paradise, and there micht na hae been ony faa." I have spoken elsewhere of the cool matter-of-fact manner in which the awful questions connected with the funerals of friends are often approached by Scottish people, without the least intention or purpose of being irreverent or unfeeling.