REASSURING!
Old Gent (suddenly turning corner in narrow lane). “Oh!—I say!—Is he?—Will he?”—(backing into hedge.)—“Can he?”——
Peasant. “Don’t take no notice of ’im, sir! I’ve got a wee bit check on ’im if he runs!!”
“THE VERNACULAR”
Old Gentleman, frae Aberdeen (at the Exhibition). “I say, Joack, look up the cat’logk an see fa that is wi’ the ‘Brechum’ [horse-collar] on!”
A NARCOTIC