Friend Mac Donald

sty.-Last words of a Father to his Son.-Abraham in Scotland.-How Donald outdid Jonathan.-Circumspection, Insinuations, and Negations.-Delicious Declarations of Love

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enture happened b

as condemned by the Bailie of his village to pay a fine of h

r pockets, you will perhaps imagine that Friend Donald p

cotland, you do not part with your

reflecte

go to jail? H

exclaims, suddenly str

happened that he had a little business to arrange there, but

k-up, and in the morning is ta

no choice but to give it him and set him at liberty. Our hero, proud as a king at the success of his plan,

when he hit upon his stratagem

ves are fond of te

t Sandy McNab was ta'en

ipit body! Could he no boc

elatively empty. Donald is often in the co

s the day with th

t no one may take me in. If Thou canst grant me but one of

fellow, however, who

the signature of a Scotchman in your pocket, you may make your mind easy; but, if you sign a

g; but if, by chance, an error escape

I have always heard the English say they liked doing business with Scotch firms, because

rt, that he will go straight to Paradise whatever he may do. You will confess that th

lection, if the following little anecdote th

th at hand, sends for his so

want to get on in the world, be honest. Never forget that, in all business, hon

yle of that one which the late Count Beust spe

as honest a man as it is po

ting in Scotland: they w

they saw ...

ship with Scotchmen, and do not form a band apart. They do

d set up in business; but it was not long before he packed u

sked him. "Is it because th

"I am going because

d as to try his hand there whe

g anecdote, which dates from only a few months back, and was in

h an Aberdonian, by which he undertook to go and

rts of England, the American bethought himself that he might have made better te

erous. Cannot do Aberdeen for less

not born to

e con

in his pocket, goes calmly to

ght. Co

first venture, rubs his hands, and, two days

erous. Impossible to do Aberde

laughs in his sleeve. He bids the messenge

ght. Co

ever, and might have been very surprised if he

ve his lecture, and at the end was presente

ut it is forty p

Donald, quietly: "here is our

ll you that I could not possibly

replied Dona

ered-'All rig

is t

l th

is all right: you hav

's fable, Jonathan registere

ack to America to tell his compatriots that he took in a Scotchman." And

ct of the American quit

ght-come on," a magnificent examp

. He proceeds by insinuations, still oftener by negations, and that even in the most trifling matters. He does not commit himself: he doubts, he goes as far as to

butler to fill his guests' gl

ill our glasses, we wad

hat the weather is very

it may be; but th

in hints and negations must have grea

ung girl understand that you love her, and wish to ma

ses to Mary

eir ramble they pass t

ger to one of the gra

e, Mary; wad ye l

the Doctor, and became his wi

cdote that was told me in an Ed

ach other, but neither has spoken

day makes up his mi

to lie on your death bed and hae no ane

ust be a pleasant thing to feel that a frien's

s me sometimes think o' marriage. Aft

ht of livin' wi' a mon that I could care for is no disagreeable to

an I loe," responds Jamie; "but

ye ask he

s words with the slightest chalorous movemen

Jamie, I wad like you

ompleted with a kiss

; all the less, perhaps, because he knows that he will ha

lf, much to the despair of foreigners, so far as to only pronounce the accentuated syllable o

Scotch conversation,

of a plaid hanging at a

" (W

"Ay, oo." (

"A' oo?"

y, a' oo." (Y

ae oo?" (Al

a' ae oo." (Ye

ot have much to fear on

agine that laconism

I have something bet

me often paid a visit to

o Carlyle's library to have a quiet chat together, seated the

nbroken save for the little dry regular sound that the lips of the smokers made as th

ood each other without speech, Tennyson rose to take leave of his host. Carly

ad a grand nicht! Co

worthy to fill the first seat in the Silent Academy, the ch

k much, write little, and s

place in the Silent Academy

r Jane, Christopher North fixed a small ticket to Miss Jane's chest, and announced hi

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