INDEX

A.
A’ a’e oo, 16
Aberdeenshire woman’s affliction, 38
A dangerous case o’ typhus, 83
A day in the desk, 160
A fearfu’ sermon, 95
A fisher of men, 98
Ainslie, Hew, quoted, 27
Airlie, Earl of, 62, 238
Alexander, Dr. William Lindsay, 138
Also, but not likewise, 292
Anderson, Dr. William, 57, 80, 84
And the Lord said unto Moses, 60
Another glass and then, 62
An awfu’ fricht, 175
A pig in the bed, 213
Arbroath epitaph, 448
Are yer aits muckle bookit? 214
As it is in the original, 94
A week before the sun went doon, 209
A well-corrected mistake, 155
Auld, Dr., 378
Auld lang syne, 15
dune up in tartan, 245
Awfu’ wark; they’re just killin’ ane anither ower there, 35
Aytoun, Professor, 267, 269
B.
Ballantyne, Mrs., 260
Balquhidder epitaph, 448
Balnamoon and the brock, 49
Banffshire epitaph, 444
Bannockburn, Story of the battle of, 201
Baptismal customs, 346
Baptisms, Stories about, 86, 107, 108
Barbour, Sheriff, 297
Bargaig, Lord, 295
Barebones’ first day in the desk, 158
Barrie, J. M., 30
quoted, 51
Barty, Rev. Mr., of Ruthven, 136
Beadle on Disestablishment, 130
drawing an inference, 132
Begg, Rev. Dr., 47
Betty’s courtship and marriage, 336
Bishop Irving of Argyll, 81
Bishop though he be, 107
Blackie, Professor, 29
Blacklock, Dr. Thomas, 90
Bleakie, Sir Robert, of Blair Athol, 205
Bluidy Bell’s epitaph, 447
Bonar, Rev. Dr. A. A., 360
Bonnie House o’ Airlie, The, 239
Boston, Rev. Mr., and Daft Jock Amos, 379
Boswell, Sir Alexander, 287
Bothwell epitaph, 444
Boyd, Hugh, quoted, 226
Boyd, Rev. Zachary, 273
Braxfield, Lord, 285, 286
Breadalbane, Marquis, 107
Lady, 107
Brewster, Sir David, 352
Brougham, Lord, 288
Brown, Rev. John of Haddington, 120
Brown, Dr. John, 105
Bruce and Strang, 296
Buchanan, Robert, 183
Burial customs, 349
Burke and Hare Trial, 304
Burns’ letter to William Nicol, 21
Burns quoted, 21, 27, 146, 169, 356, 363
Burns’ Poems, Cockney Edition, 210
Epigrams by, 249, 250, 251
Anecdotes of, 251, 252, 253, 254
and Scott, Meeting of, 255
Burns of Castle Wemyss, 83
C.
Caird, Principal, 145
Cameron, W. C., 272
Canna ye boo, ye brute? 113
Campbell, Thomas, 275
Campbell and Leyden, 276
Cameronian’s cat, The, 283
Carle, and the King come, 264
Carlyle family described, 334
Cia mar a tha thu an duidh?, 236
Chalmers, Dr., 158, 335
Chevy Chase in the Psalms, 151
Clank, clankin’ through heaven, 38
Clan pride, 238
Classon, Dr., 346
Clerk, John, of Eldin, 291, 292, 294
Coals of fire on his enemy’s head, 40
Coat, sir! whaur got I the coat? 307
Cockburn, Lord, 23, 28, 285, 290, 299, 302
Cockburn, Mrs., 258
Colquhoun, Sir James, 288, 294
“Come awa, Mr. Horner, an’ help us to hang thae damned scoondrels,” 286
Congregation needing a rest, 100
Consolation, 38
Conveeviality that plays the plisky, 180
Cranston, Mr., 353
Craig, Willie, and the Earl of Mansfield, 322
Cringletie, Lord, 293
Crockett, S. R., 30
Crossmichael, Minister of, 60
Curing the Coo, 47
Curator Bonus, 295
“Crummy’s” epitaph, 442
Cullen epitaph, 444
Cruden ” 442
Crail ” 384
D.
Daft Jock Amos, 379-380
Daft Jock Gordon, 371
Daft Rab Hamilton, 377-379
Daft Willie Law, 369
Daft Will Speir, 381-384
Daoine Shi, 362
Davie’s no a son, Davie’s the cuddie, 103
Dead flea in John’s sowl, 64
Deans’, Jeanie, plea to the Queen, 19
“Deevil choke ye,” 67
Deil’s Reply to Robert Burns, The, 277
Deskford epitaph, 433
Devil, definition of the word, 60
Dews of Hermon, 293
Dick’s edition of Burns, 210
Dinna snore sae loud, Bailie Broon, 75
Dinna bury me like a beast, 400
Doin’ brawly in Perth, 178
Dod, sir, that psalm’ll no sing ava, 162
Donald and his great relations, 207
Don’t call me a soldier, 298
Doon wi’ the ither shillin’ or up she comes, 137
Dow, Rev. Dr., of Errol, 78
“Dowie in the Hint o’ Hairst,” 27
Dram be hang’d: it’s no a bit o’ use, 185
“Drinkin’ Drams,” 192
Dry enough, 78
Dumfries epitaph, 443
Duff, Rev. Dr., of Kilspindie, 78
Dundas, Mr. Henry, 206, 296
Dundee Parish Church beadle and the session, 129
Dundee epitaph, 445
Dunkeld epitaph, 446
Dunlop, Rev. Walter, 56, 67-69
E.
Earl of Eglinton and Will Speir, 383
Earl of Mansfield, 322
Eatin’ amang the brutes, 77
E’enin’s orts mak’ gude mornin’ fodder, 15
Elgin epitaph, 448
Eldin, Lord, 293
Eldon, Lord, 293
Epitaphs, 440
Erskine, Mr., of Alva, 295
Erskine, Sir Henry, 294
Erskine, Rev. Ralph, and the blacksmith, 119
Eskgrove, Lord, 287-289
Every ane has his ain draff-pock, 76
Everybody has his ain bubblyjock, 372
“Evil Eye,” 348
F.
Fa’s feel are ye? 391
Fa’ fuppit the loonie? 13
Fairservice, Andrew, 20
Fairgrieve, Robert, beadle of Ancrum, 124
Family worship: the time o’ year o’t, 37
Far abune the mune, 185
Fashed wi’ a set o’ deein’ men, 115
Fat ’ill tak’ it aff, 14
Fechtin’ wi’ cawnil licht, 37
Fifer more Fifish than his fellows, 370
Finlay, William, quoted, 419
Fleeman, the Laird of Udny’s fool, 386
resists temptation, 390
in Edinburgh, 390
in Perth, 395
shak’-a-fa’s the soldiers, 383
confounds the guilty ploughman, 397
Flype yer stockin’, 15
Flype her, Peety ye couldna, 48
Following a good example, 120
Forfar cobbler, A canny, 43
Forfar epitaph, 450
Forfarshire beadle, 147
Fou! Fou! Fou! 79
Foxes’ tails, Story about the, 166
Fraser, Dr. Alexander, 332
Freits, 343-347
Freedom and whisky, 170
Fun at the Soutar’s, 49
G.
Gairtney epitaph, 441
Gallopin’ consumption, 374
Galt, John, 30
Gey weel sattled doon by this time, 201
Ghost o’ Mause, 351
Ghosts, stories of, 349-355
Giff-gaff, 43
Gilfillan, Rev. George, 80, 85, 86, 276
Gillan, Dr., of Inchinnan, 80
Gillies, Lord, 309
Gin the tail breaks, you’ll see what’s the maitter, 232
Glasgow Cathedral, Account of, 20
Glasgow epitaphs, 450, 451
Gordon, Duchess of, 29
Gordon, Pryse, 443
Gouk’s, Tam, epitaph, 444, 296
Gow, Neil, 177
Gowdie, Isobel, 356
Gown made to fit any party, 296
Gowpen o’ glaur, A, 15
Grace of God, 74
Grave joke, 40
Grat, an’ swat, an’ spat like the very mischief, 125
Green as leeks at the Shotts, 66
Guthrie, Dr., 81, 317
H.
Hackstoun of Rathillet, 121
Haddington epitaphs, 442, 443
Hallowe’en, 363-366
Hamilton, Daft Rab, 377-379
Hay, Sir John, 306
Hammon’s no hanged yet, 75
Harewood’s, Lord, dinner party, 204
Harry at it again, 295
“Hawkie’s” account of himself, 405
autobiography, 403
first public appearance, 405
wanderings, 406-408
debt to the British Government, 410
lodgings, 415
profession—a collector of taxes, 411
opinion of Perth, 413
retorts to the police, 414
retort to Bishop Murdoch, 416
politics, 417
health, 419
“fir jacket,” 419
street oratory, 419
Hermand, Lord, 288-290
Highlandman’s prayer, 225
Highland sermon, 226
letter, 229
lesson in music, 230
apology, 242
Hill, Captain, Epitaph on, 449
Hirsle yont, 15
History of Jonah, 274
Hoddam epitaph, 451
Hogg, James, 24, 260
Hogg quoted, 24, 361
Hoo the streets o’ Jerusalem were keepit clean, 128
Horncliffe epitaph, 452
Hotch-potch, Story of, 212
How long a man may live without brains, 368
I.
I couldna but win, 302
I dinna think ower muckle o’ him for’t either, 315
Ill, vile, evil, devil, 60
Imlah, John, 418
I’m the lad that lowses the graavats, 173
Inglis, James, quoted, 95, 333, 334
Insisting in prayer, 66
Intill’t, what’s intill’t? 212
Inveraray proclamation, 225
Irving, Edward, 69
Is’t a general risin’? 69
It’s dowie in the hint o’ hairst, 27
It’ll no do chaps: we’ll need to try’t a wee thocht laicher, 162
It’ll tak’ it a’ to ser’ the fouk at the funeral, 327
It’s a solemn thing marriage, 112
I wad hang ye a’ at the same price, 203
I wadna lippen him wi’ a bull stirk, 304
J.
J—a—jay—fal-de-riddle—cob, 154
Janet Davidson and the seventh commandment, 118
Jeffrey, Lord, 30, 298
Jessie, my woman, aye dance, 105
Jock and his parritch, 35
“Johnny Gibb,” 30
Johnson, Dr., 199, 329
Johnnie Bell o’ Brakenbrow, 441
John Knox never askit for a stove in his kirk, 88
Jonah and the “whawl,” 64
Jummlin’ the joodgement, and confoondin’ the sense, 125
Just a hint to the Englishers, 202
Just an unco fykieness i’ the mind, 335
K.
Kennedy, David, 151, 196
Killin’ ane anither ower there, 36
Kilmun bellman, 241
Kilspindie story, 103
“Kinnoull Hill,” 155
Kittlin’ in the paup o’ his hass, 162
Knox, John, 204
L.
Lady Greensleeves, 351
Lang time afore it mak’s up for Flodden, 201
Law, Rev. Mr., 74
Lawson, Dr., of Selkirk, 72-73
“Land o’ the Leal,” English ideas of, 210
Leighton, Robert, 212
Left to my ain oath, 302
Leyden and Campbell, 276
Liberals or Conservatives, 54
Line upon line, 158
Loch Ranza epitaph, 450
Logiepert epitaph, 444
Lord, Tam, I wad gie a pound for half an oor o’ thae witnesses, 302
London journalists, 29
Lord Elgin’s burial, 369
Lord’s Prayer intill Auld Scottis, 18
ye just mak’ a dishclout o’t, 71
“Lord Preserve Us!” 291
Love defined, 335
Lundie’s, Laird of, epitaph, 443
Lykewake, 349
M.
Macdonald, Dr. George, 30
Macgregor, Dr., of the Tron, 105
Mackie, M.P., Mr. John, 207
Macklin, Charles, 29
Macknight, Dr., 78
Macleod, Rev. Donald, 138
Macleod, Dr. Norman, 57, 81-83, 91
quoted, 240
Macnab, Laird of, 429-439
Maiden Lilliard’s epitaph, 451
Maistly a native, 47
Man, yon was an ill-faured trick; ye’ll surely tak’ a look o’ the gudes noo? 216
Mansfield, Earl of, 322
“Mansie Wauch,” 30
Marriage anecdotes, 112-115
customs and superstitions, 347-348
Martin, Sir Theodore, 267, 269
Massacre of the Phairshon, 269
Matthison’s, William, epitaph, 452
Maybe they’ll say the Teevil was a Hielandman, 237
M’Cubbin, Rev. Dr., of Douglas, 77
M’Dougall, Rev. Mr., 99
M’Dougall, Rev. Mr., of Paisley, 164
M’Farlane, Dr., 74
Metaphysics defined, 37
M’Laughlan, Alexander, a Blairgowrie beadle, 128
M’Kenzie, Old Henry, 173
M’Leans before the Flood, 238
M’Laggan, Alexander, 336
M’Taggart quoted, 358
Meadowbank, Lord, 291, 292
Milking “Matthew Henry,” 318
Men of Peace, 362
Meigle epitaph, 452
Melrose epitaph, 450
Melville, Lord, 296
Mitchell, Rev. Mr., 142
Moncrieff, Rev. Sir Henry, 157
Moncrieff, Sir Harry, 291
Morrison, Rev. Walter, 70
Montrose epitaph, 453
Muckle He made o’ that, He was hangit, 286
My cuit’s yeukie, 15, 376
M’Pherson’s, Andrew, epitaph, 443
N.
Naturals, 367
Necessity and Cringletie, 293
Niagara Falls, Scotch idea of, 41
“Noctes Ambrosianæ,” 266
Nine-and-twenty knives that came back from Babylon, 380
No relation at all; but just an acquaintance like yersel’, 207
No soldier, 298
Nothing extraordinary, 50
O.
Oats, definition of, 199
Oh, for a man! 154
One way of rising at the Bar, 295
O’Rell, Max, on Cockney versus Scotch humour, 33
Oliphant, Rev. James, 59
Omens, 343, 344
Oswald of Dunnikier, 369
Our Ain Folk, 95
Outram, George, quoted, 192, 265
“Owre the water to Charlie,” 306
P.
Patent machine for sowing turnips, 330
Pairtly they do, and pairtly they mind their ain business, 215
Paisley bodies, 41
Paul, Dr., 61
Perthshire worthies, 323-325
Perthshire farmers, 319-320
Perthshire blacksmith and the dram, 176
Pearlin’ Jean, 350
Pennant quoted, 354
Peterhead epitaph, 442
Picken, Ebenezer, of Paisley, 277
Plenty o’ milk for a’ the parritch, 35
Poacher’s prayer, A, 25
Pockfu’ o’ goats’ horns at the Broomielaw, Like a, 77
Proclamation, Old, 23
Prodigal son, when he came to himself, 63
Professor of Signs, 218
Proverbs, 15
Pitcairn quoted, 356
Pearson, Alison, 363
Plant it wi’ factors, Laird, 388
Prentice, John, beadle of Carnwath, 135
Prince Consort, Story of, 211
Punch an offender, 29, 210
Purdie, Tom, Story of, 259
Put on the goun, sir, 140
Q.
Quadruped here, quadruped there, ye should hae clippit the brute’s wings, 312
R.
Ramsay, Allan, 267
Ramsay, Dean, 34, 57, 71, 369
Ranting tantin’, tearin’ wind, 65
Rax a rung, and reeshil his rumple, 13
Readin’, the paltry fallow, 90
Repeating tunes, 152, 153
Rhyming Edinburgh shopkeepers, 46
Rin, Bookie, rin, 274
Ritchie, Rev. Dr., of Potterrow, 181
Robertson, Bailie, of Edinburgh, 312
Robertson, Rev. James, of Kilmarnock, 76
Rodger, Alexander, 224, 264
Rogers, Rev. Dr. Charles, 34, 72, 296, 306
Ross, Rev. John, Blairgowrie, 66
Russel of the Scotsman, 98
Rutherford, Lord, 296, 329
S.
Sabbath observance, Stories of, 314-317
Santa Claus, 46
Sandy and the shower bath, 45
“Sawney, now the King’s come,” 264
Savin’ the bawbees, 44
Scotland described by an enthusiast, 198
Scotland described by a critic, 199
Scott, Rev. John, 59
Scott, Adam, in Upper Dalgleish, 24
Scots Magazine, quoted, 23
Scott, Anecdotes of, 254-264, 331, 335, 370, 371
Scott, Margaret, 444
Scott, Marion, 445
Scott quoted, 19
Scunnered at them baith, 114
Scorin’ abune the breath, 360
Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, 358
Seybo synd’t doon the syvor, 13
Shakespeare maist clever enough to be a Scotchman, 197
Sharpe, Andrew, 448
Sharpe, Charles, Kirkpatrick, quoted, 350
Sheep’s head that will sing, 203
Shepherd, The Ettrick, 232
Shirra, Rev. Robert, Kirkcaldy, 58
Shi ich, or men of peace, 362
“Shon M’Nab,” 224
Sittin’ up wi’ the corpse, 349
Skelton, Lord, 297
Skinner, Rev. John, 56, 71
Skirving, Adam, quoted, 270
Skye, epitaph from, 452
Singing before the Queen, 52
Small, Robert, 444
Snaw finds the sinners oot, 133
Snee-snaw-snow, 156
Snuff! snuff! snuff! 78
Snuff in the Sermon, 88
Soldier’s prayer, 36
Somerville, Dr., 353
So, John, 447
Soond! no soond! a’ soond! 132
Spak’ o’ lowpin’ ower a linn, 15
Spoon is on the loom, The, 13
Statistical Account quoted, 162, 349
Stick to the forms of the Church, 80
Stuart: a curse on the name, 306
St. Andrews epitaph, 449
Stobo’s, Robert, epitaph, 444
Strang and Bruce, 297
Sydney Smith and Scotch “wut,” 32
T.
Tak’ a snuff, John, 88
Tamlane, The young, 363
“Tammas Bodkin,” 30
“Tandem,” 143
Taylor, the schoolmaster of Currie, 14
Teetotal story, 187
Thae fowk o’ Todhills—they havena broken grund yet, 147
The best redd wig, 73
The Peer of Aberdeen, 299
The Lord’s no deaf, 102
The man’s crackit, 70
The sweep’s dead, 55
There they go—three-a-penny, 84
There’s a chance for ye yet, 61
They’re seein’ noo, 53
The Harangue, 288
That man Broom, 288
Thom, Rev. Mr., of Govan, 56, 75, 76
Thomson, the author of “The Seasons,” 352
Thrummy Cap, 351
Trollope, Anthony, 83
Tranent epitaph, 452
To many I a wonder am, 157
Toom barrel aye sounds loudest, A, 77
“Tullochgorum”: story of the author, 71
Tyre’s, Thomas, epitaph, 446
V.
Valet of the shadow of death, 81
Very good for hogs, 200
W.
Waddell, Dr. Hately, quoted, 17
Waggishness in the Inn of Glamis, 51
Wee Macgregor o’ the Tron, 106
We’ll pit ye in the Gorbals first, 39
What the devil he was roaring at, 227
Whaur in a’ the world did I get thae (hic) young deucks? 185
Whaur John Clerk lives, 294
“White Horse,” The, 92
Wheesht a minute, sir, I think I hear a cairt, 103
When the Lord repeats, we’ll repeat, 153
Wightman, Dr., of Kirkmahoe, 113, 371
Whistlin’ in Fife, 325
Wilberforce, Dr., 107
Wilson, Professor, 30, 266
With the author’s compliments, 267
Witches, 355-361
Witch of Fife, 360
Willie Wastle, 27
Woolie Ghost, 353
Y.
Yatterin’ creaturs, wha wad ken what they said, 36
Ye Banks and Brays of Bonnie Doon, 210
Ye Chronicle of Saint Andrew, 188
Ye’re far ower lood, 89
Ye see what ye’ve dune noo wi’ yer d—d—dawmed burial, 325
Ye wad be nane the waur o’ a hanging, 286
Young, Rev. Dr., of Perth, 66
Yule, Rev. Mr., 96