THRIFT!

Mabel (who has just concluded a bargain for a fowl). “Then I’ll tell mother you’ll kill it and send it up to-night.”

Mrs. Macfarlane. “Na, na, I’ll no kill it till the morn. I’m thinkin’ it’s goin’ to lay an egg this evenin’!”

AN IRREVERENT SAXON

“My card, mon? I hanna got one! But I’d hae you to ken that I’m a Mackintosh!”

“You may be a Humbereller for all I knows, but my fare’s heighteenpence!”