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]