Friend Mac Donald

of the Cockney.-Intelligence and Intellectuality.-Donald's Exterior.-Donald's Interior.-Help yourself and Heaven will help you.-An Irish and a Scotch Servant

ressed in a Tam-o'-Shanter, a plaid, and kilt of red and green tartan, and playing the

d to entertain the same illusions on the subjec

o near on the map, and so far re

that opinion in the presence of one, a

but if you take him for an English

not English. I

ain Scotch. He is proud of his nati

Kingdom, Friend Donald is the most keen, sturdy, m

! Now I have s

th all due respect to t

that when I spoke to them of my intention

med, "that it is only by means of a pickaxe that

um, that it required a surgical operation to make a Scotchman understand a joke, poor Donald has be

ss-a poor fellow incapable of making much beyond prayers and money, and the Londoner who has never travelled-the poor Cockney who still firmly believes that the French are feeble cre

heavy as a

to a hoax, and you will ne

and bantering are not in his line. A pun will floor him completely; but I hope to be able to prove, by means of a few anecdotes, that Do

gence in Scotland than in England; but I can in

gether, pretends not to be able to keep on his hat, sends him into the seventh heaven of delight; and I have seen the tenants of the stalls applaud these things. Such performances make the Scotch smile, but with pity. The Cockney! When you

understands demi-mots; he is good-tempered, and can take a joke as well as see through one. His quick-wittedness and the subtlety of his character make him full of quaint r

but he possesses more

nce with his intellect

m: he is as strong as his own

een eyes; iron muscles; a hand that almost crushes your own as he shakes it; and large

t he generally live

confident of going to Paradi

h Colonies, do you find him landowner, director of companies, at the head of enterprises of all kin

is very

inary circumstances, or to chance, as

of-fact, exact, thoroughly to be depend

day, he puts by sixpence or a shilling; he minds his

y, robust, and rendered impervious to fatigue by the practice of every hea

and to rely upon his own resources-an emin

and Heaven w

I guarantee that you will find him, a few years later, installed

ill starve, the Scotch will exist; where t

ened me very much as to why one finds the Scotch farming their ow

ever there was one, faithful, and of a r

one morning to find the poor cook on her knees in

y, if ye will, but the Lord has a muckle to mind; and ye'd do weel to pit

ss," said a worthy lady,

thought I, or v

ons with the most serious danger. The doctor, a tall, strong man, had with him a Scotch minister, who was small and delicate. The

e ane gang to pray, but first the big ane

most practical

ly, and whom nothing will divert f

se worth keeping; who swears by the Bible-and as hard[B] as a Norman carter; who serves God every Sabbath day and Mammon

rue worth when you have known him some time. He does not jump at you with demonstrations of love, nor does

ompt cash, but will hav

e train goes through. He looks out of the window all the time, so as not to miss a pennyworth of the money he has paid for his

d think so, sir; and so it o

dge in Australia, takes off his coat, which he rolls and

is own neighbourhood. He is simply an eccentric Scot, who does not se