“AU PIED DE LA LETTRE”
Free-Kirk Minister (to his “Elder”). “John, I should like you to intimate that on Monday next I propose paying pastoral visits in the High and North Streets, in which I also hope to embrace all the servant girls of the congregation in that district!”
His Wife (whom he’d lately married from the South). “You shall do nothing of the kind, sir! Let me see you dare to——!”
[Goes into hysterics!
Geographical.—Examiner (to Scots boy in Free School). Where is the village of Drum?
Scots Boy (readily). In the county of Fife.
[Prize given.