[25] Another name for the stool of repentance.
[26] A colloquialism. The meaning is—‘You must not kiss any woman other than your own wife.’
[27] A witticism for whitings or haddocks. Dunbar has from an early period been one of the leading ports on the east coast fishing grounds.
[28] It would be difficult to say how the herring caught in Loch Fyne came to be called ‘Glasgow Magistrates.’ The name is still applied to them.
[29] One way of putting an old Scottish proverb. Henderson’s reading of it is:—‘There ne’er was a silly Jockey but what there was a silly Jenny.’
[30] In some modern editions the word ‘jaw’ is inserted instead of ‘jamf,’ or, as it is sometimes spelled ‘jamph.’
[31] Probably Prestonpans, famous for fishers and potters, and for its battle-field.
[32] In Morren’s edition of this chap-book, published in Edinburgh in the early years of the present century, the word here used is ‘keckling,’ meaning to laugh, or, more properly, to ‘smirk.’ ‘Keckling’ seems the more likely word.
[33] Another reading of the old saying—‘The deil catch the hindmost.’
[34] This can hardly be taken literally. Possibly what is meant is ‘powsee,’ a small fresh haddock.