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 out, "Let her alane, I'll wauken her mysel', I'll warrant ye."-"Phew! phew! (whistling) a bottle o' ale and a dram, Janet."—"Comin', Sir" was instantly replied.—"There now," says the minister, "I tald ye it wadna be lang afore I waken'd her!"

A labouring Highlandman who lived in the upper parts of Perthshire, whose wife was taken in labour, wished him to retire out of the house. Janet says to him,—"Oh! you be gang awa' Duncan, gang awa'!" The man however kept loitering about the door, seemingly impressed with something of great importance. At last he cries to his wife, "You speak a me, Shanet! you speak a me! The wife asks, "What you say, Duncan? —"Gie the cummer (the midwife) a dram, Shanet, gie the cummer a dram!"—"What for Duncan?" "Gie the cummer a dram, Shanet, an' tell him to make her a laddie."

Three young. Highlanders, some years ago, sat out from their native hills, to seek a livelihood amongst their countrymen in the Lowlands. They had hardly learned any English. One of them could say, "We three Highlandmen;" the second, "For the purse and the penny siller;" and the third had properly learned, "And our just right too;" intending thus to explain the motives of their journey. They trudged along, when, in a lonely glen, they saw the body of a man who had been recently murdered: the Highlanders stopped to deplore the fate of the unhappy mortal, when a gentleman with