An old minister, of the quiet jocose turn of mind we speak of, finding himself thus kept at a little distance, stretched out his walking staff and put it on the young man's head, with the quiet remark, "That will do! Timmer to timmer"-- timber to timber.
Their style of preaching, too was, no doubt often plain and homely.

They had not the graces of elocution or elegance of diction.

But many were faithful in their office, and preached Christ as the poor man's friend and the Saviour of the lowly and the suffering.

I have known Scottish ministers of the old school get into a careless indifferent state of ministration; I have also known the hoary head of many a Scottish minister go down to the grave a crown of glory, in his day and generation more honoured than many which had been adorned by a mitre.
FOOTNOTES: [14] Lying Gilbert.
[15] This anecdote has been illustrated, as taken from these pages, by a very clever sketch of the Highlander and his admirer, in a curious publication at Liverpool called _The Tobacco Plant_, and devoted to the interests of smoking and snuffing.
[16] The truth is, in old English usage "bug" signifies a spectre or anything that is frightful.

Thus in Henry VI., 3d Part, act v.