I tell ye that late denner was the ruin o' that man.

It fair got between him an' his jidgment.

He couldna veesit his folk at a wise-like hour in the evening because he was gaun to hev his denner, and he couldna get oot late because his leddy-wife wanted him to be at hame efter denner.

There's mony a thing to cause a minister to stumble, for they're juist human beings after a', but his rich mairrage was John Allison's undoing." "Marriage," sighed Mawson, "is a great risk.

It's often as well to be single, but I sometimes think Providence must ha' meant me to 'ave an 'usband--I'm such a clingin' creature." Such sentiments were most distasteful to Miss Bathgate, that self-reliant spinster, and she said bitterly: "Ma wumman, ye're ill off for something to cling to! I never saw the man yet that I wud be pitten up wi'." "Ho! I shouldn't say that, but I must say I couldn't fancy a h'undertaker.