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