The man told him he had just had a child born in his family, and asked him if he would baptize it.

He thought the minister could not resist the offer of a bird.

"Eh, Maister Shaw," he said, "if ye'll jist do it, I hae a fine lintie the noo, and if ye'll do it, I'll gie ye the lintie." He quite thought that this would settle the matter! By these remarks I mean to express the feeling that the word _lintie_ conveys to my mind more of tenderness and endearment towards the little songster than linnet.

And this leads me to a remark (which I do not remember to have met with) that Scottish dialects are peculiarly rich in such terms of endearment, more so than the pure Anglican.

Without at all pretending to exhaust the subject, I may cite the following as examples of the class of terms I speak of.