Second Tramp. “What wye? Is there a muckle doug?”
First Tramp. “No; but there’s a danger o’ wark!”
“AGAINST THE GRAIN”
Widow Woman (to Chemist, who was weighing a grain of calomel in dispensing a prescription for her sick child). “Man, ye needna’ be sae scrimpy wi’t—’tis for a puir fatherless bairn!”
SOBER SCOTS
[“A ‘Sober Scot Society’ has been formed in Edinburgh. Its members bind themselves not to drink liquor before noon.”—Daily Paper.]
Willie brewed a peck o’ maut,