The minister's accumulated superfluous Sabbath snuff now came into good use.
It does not appear that at this time a similar excess in _eating_ accompanied this prevalent tendency to excess in drinking.

Scottish tables were at that period plain and abundant, but epicurism or gluttony do not seem to have been handmaids to drunkenness.

A humorous anecdote, however, of a full-eating laird, may well accompany those which appertain to the _drinking_ lairds .-- A lady in the north having watched the proceedings of a guest, who ate long and largely, she ordered the servant to take away, as he had at last laid down his knife and fork.

To her surprise, however, he resumed his work, and she apologised to him, saying, "I thought, Mr .-- --, you had done." "Oh, so I had, mem; but I just fan' a doo in the _redd_ o' my plate." He had discovered a pigeon lurking amongst the bones and refuse of his plate, and could not resist finishing it.
FOOTNOTES: [19] Distinguished examples of these are to be found in the Old Greyfriars' Church, Edinburgh, and in the Cathedral of Glasgow; to say nothing of the beautiful specimens in St.John's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh.
[20] "This was a square enclosure in the Greyfriars' Churchyard, guarded on one side by a veteran angel without a nose, and having only one wing, who had the merit of having maintained his post for a century, while his comrade cherub, who had stood sentinel on the corresponding pedestal, lay a broken trunk, among the hemlock, burdock, and nettles, which grew in gigantic luxuriance around the walls of the mausoleum." [21] A Shetland pony.
[22] The Lord's Supper.
[23] Bullock.
[24] Perhaps.
[25] Carefully selected.
[26] I recollect an old Scottish gentleman, who shared this horror, asking very gravely, "Were not swine forbidden under the law, and cursed under the gospel ?" [27] Lie in a grovelling attitude.

See Jamieson.
[28] So pronounced in Aberdeen.
[29] Implying that there was a James Third of England, Eighth of Scotland.
[30] Old Scotch for "drink hard".
[31] A friend learned in Scottish history suggests an ingenious remark, that this might mean more than a mere _full drinker_.