They also purchased a Doctor's gown and hood, and invested him with them in the name of Kilbogie two days before the capping.

One of them saw that he was duly brought to the Tolbooth Kirk, where the capping ceremonial in those days took place.

Another sent a list of Saunderson's articles to British and foreign theological and philological reviews, which filled half a column of the _Caledonian_, and drew forth a complimentary article from that exceedingly able and caustic paper, whose editor lost all his hair through sympathetic emotion the morning of the Disruption, and ever afterwards pointed out the faults of the Free Kirk with much frankness.

The fame of Rabbi Saunderson was so spread abroad that a great cheer went up as he came in with the other Doctors elect, in which he cordially joined, considering it to be intended for his neighbour, a successful West-end clergyman, the author of a Life of Dorcas and other pleasing booklets.

For some time after his boys said "Doctor" in every third sentence, and then grew weary of a too common title, and fell back on Rabbi, by which he was known unto the day of his death, and which is now engraved on his tombstone.
The Rabbi was tasting some morsel of literature as he came along, and halted opposite Carmichael, whom he did not see in the shadow, that he might enjoy it aloud.
"That is French verse, Rabbi, I think, but it sounds archaic; is it from a Huguenot poet ?" "Assuredly," replied the Rabbi, not one whit astonished that a man should come out from a hedge on Kilbogie road and recognise his quotation; "from Clement Marot, whom, as you remember, there is good evidence Queen Mary used to read.