The important side's the other side, the sayin' the humorous things.

I'll tell ye what: the humorist's like a man firin' at a target--he doesna ken whether he hits or no till them at the target tells 'im." "I would be of opeenion," said Hendry, who was one of Tammas's most staunch admirers, "'at another mark o' the rale humorist was his seein' humour in all things ?" Tammas shook his head--a way he had when Hendry advanced theories.
"I dinna haud wi' that ava," he said.

"I ken fine 'at Davit Lunan gaes aboot sayin' he sees humour in everything, but there's nae surer sign 'at he's no a genuine humorist.

Na, the rale humorist kens vara weel 'at there's subjects withoot a spark o' humour in them.

When a subject rises to the sublime it should be regairded philosophically, an' no humorously.