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A Badly Arranged Prayer[108]
A Beadle Magnifying his Office[26]
A Board-School Examiner Floored[143]
A Bookseller's Knowledge of Books[181]
"A Call to a Wider Sphere"[99]
A Canny Witness[112]
A Case in which Comparisons were Odious[76]
A Castle Stor(e)y[119]
A Churl Congratulated[165]
A Clever "Turn"[161]
A Comfortable Preacher[111]
A Compensation Balance[180]
A Compliment by Return[68]
A Conditional Promise[87]
A Consistent Seceder[159]
A Consoling "If"[43]
A Critic on His Own Criticism[124]
"A Cross-examiner Answered"[13]
A Crushing Argument against MS Sermons[176]
A Curiously Unfortunate Coincidence in Psalm Singing[164]
A Cute Gaoler[212]
A Cute Way of Getting an Old Account[88]
A Definition of Baptism[129]
A Definition of "Fou"[59]
A Descendant of the Stuarts[105]
A Descriptive Hymn[195]
A Different Thing Entirely[67]
A Discerning Fool[199]
A Drunkard's Thoughts[125]
A Dry Preacher[120]
A False Deal[125]
A Family Likeness[30]
A Fruitful Field[176]
A Good Judge of Accent[38]
A Grammatical Beggar[120]
A "Grand" Piano[147]
A "Grave" Hint[173]
A Harmless Joke[106]
A Highland Chief and His Doctor[170]
A Highland Servant Girl and the Kitchen Bell[97]
A Highland Outburst of Gratitude and an Inburst of Hurricane[66]
A Highlander on Bagpipes[56]
A Keen Reproof[134]
A "Kippered" Divine[105]
A Law of Nature[199]
A Leader's Description of His Followers[190]
A Lecture on Baldness—Curious Results[46]
A Lesson in Manners[202]
A Lesson to the Marquis of Lorne[15]
A Lofty "Style"[126]
A Lunatic's Advice to Money-Lenders[129]
A Magnanimous Cobbler[202]
A Marriage not made in Heaven[210]
A Matter-of-fact Death Scene[172]
A Minor Major[88]
A Misdeal[103]
A Miserly Professor[46]
A Modern Dumb Devil (D.D.)[164]
A Mother's Confidence in Her Son[113]
A Nest-egg Noo[14]
A New and Original Scene in "Othello"[178]
A New Application of "The Argument from Design"[174]
A New Explanation of an Extra Charge[94]
A New Story Book—at the Time[150]
A Night in a Coal Cellar[211]
A Paradox[200]
A Patient Lady[140]
A Piper's Opinion of a Lord—and Himself[163]
A Poacher's Prayer[205]
A Poem for the Future[108]
A Poetical Question and Answer[121]
A Poor Place for a Cadger[149]
A Powerful Preacher[79]
A Practical View of Matrimony[207]
A Preacher with His Back Towards Heaven[175]
A Process of Exhaustion[167]
A Ready Student[73]
"A Reduction on a Series"[151]
A Reproof Cleverly Diverted[32]
A Restful Preacher[139]
A Sad Drinking Bout[209]
A Sad Loss[201]
A Satisfactory Explanation[119]
A Saving Clause[156]
A Scathing Scottish Preacher in Finsbury Park[155]
A Scotch Curtain Lecture on Profit and Pain[59]
A Scotch Fair Proclamation of Olden Days[153]
A Scotch Matrimonial Jubilee[125]
A Scotch "Native"[98]
A Scotch "Squire"[33]
A Scotch "Supply"[109]
A Scotch Version of the Lives of Esau and Jacob[62]
A Scotch View of Shakespeare[58]
A Sensible Lass[200]
A Sensible Servant[202]
A Serious Dog—and for a Serious Reason[161]
A Sexton's Criticism[183]
A Shrewd Reply[83]
"A Sign of Grace,"[103]
A Spiritual Barometer[174]
A Stranger in the Court of Session[198]
A Successful Tradesman[61]
A Sympathetic Hearer[87]
A Teetotal Preacher Asks for "A Glass"—and Gets It[107]
A Test of Literary Appreciation[207]
A Thoughtless Wish[167]
A Thrifty Proposal[123]
A Typical Quarrel[71]
A Variety Entertainment[194]
A Vigorous Translation[195]
A Whole-witted Sermon from a Half-witted Preacher[135]
A Widow's Promise[117]
A Wife's Protection[100]
A "Wigging"[204]
Absence of Humor—Illustrated[146]
Absent in Mind, and Body too[208]
Acts of Parliament "Exhausted"[173]
Advice on Nursing[124]
Advice to an M.P.[68]
"After you, Leddies"[207]
"'Alice' Brown, the Jaud"[56]
An Affectionate Aunt[199]
An Angry Preacher[111]
An Author and His Printer[134]
An Earl's Pride and Parsimony[127]
An Economical Preacher's Bad Memory[92]
An Epitaph to Order[194]
An "Exceptional Prayer"[118]
An Extra Shilling to Avoid a Calamity[206]
An Idiot's Views of Insanity[113]
An Instance of Scott's Pleasantry[36]
An Observant Husband[29]
An Open Question[102]
An Out-of-the-way Reproof[119]
"Another Opportunity"[211]
Appearing "in Three Pieces"[73]
"As Guid Deid as Leevin"[58]
At the End of His Tether[123]
Bad Arithmeticians Often Good Bookkeeper[131]
"Before the Provost"[195]
Beginning Life where he ought to have Ended, and Vice Versa[86]
Better than a Countess[114]
"Bock Again!"—A Prompt Answer[104]
Bolder than Charles the Bold[137]
Born Too Late[175]
Both Short[193]
Broader Than He Was Long[205]
"Brothers" in Law[29]
"Bulls" in Scotland[29]
Canny Dogs[68]
Capital Punishment[35]
"Capital Punishment"—Modified[90]
Caring for Their Minister[19]
Catechising[201]
Church Economy[60]
Church Popularity[197]
Choosing a Minister[77]
Compensation[84]
Compulsory Education and a Father's Remedy[34]
Concentrated Caution[173]
"Consecrated" Ground[75]
Consoled by a Relative's Lameness[41]
Curious Delusion Concerning Light[41]
Curious Idea of the Evidence for Truth[37]
Curious Misunderstanding[131]
Curious Pulpit Notice[141]
Curious Sentence[42], [68]
Curious Use of a Word[91]
Dead Shot[34]
Deathbed Humor[172]
Definition of Metaphysics[131]
Degrees of Capacity[95]
Denominational Graves[196]
Depression—Delight—Despair[126]
"Discretion—the Better Part of Valor"[51]
Disqualified to be a Country Preacher[122]
Distributing His Praises with Discernment[22]
Disturbed Devotions[110]
Domestics in By-gone Days[102]
Double Meanings[17]
Drawing an Inference[182]
Drinking by Candle-light[121]
Driving the Deevil Oot[70]
Droll Solemnity[93]
Drunken Wit[117]
Dry Weather, and Its Effect on the Ocean[37]
Earning His Dismissal[57]
"Eating Among the Brutes"[110]
"Effectual Calling"[142]
Either Too Fast or Too Slow[97]
English versus Scotch Sheep's Heads[33]
Entrance Free, and "Everything Found"[161]
Escaping Punishment[196]
"Every Man to His Own Trade"[73]
Extraordinary Absence of Mind[104]
"Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady"[63]
Faring Alike[102]
Fetching His "Character"[96]
Finding Work for His Class, While He Dined[91]
Fool Finding[75]
Forcing a Judge to Obey the Law[132]
"Fou—Aince"[181]
Fowls and Ducks![84]
From Different Points of View[74]
From Pugilism to Pulpit[158]
"Gathering Up the Fragments"[169]
Ginger Ale[87]
Giving Them the Length of His Tongue[166]
Going to Ramoth Gilead[182]
Going to the Doctor's and "Taking" Something[76]
Good Enough to Give Away[120]
Good "for Nothing"—Not the Goodness Worth Having[78]
"Grace" With No Meat After[142]
Gratifying Industry![203]
Grim Humor[122]
Ham and Cheese[150]
Happy Escape from an Angry Mob[43]
"Haste" and "Leisure"[111]
"Haudin' His Stick"[38]
"Having the Advantage"[166]
"Hearers Only—Not Doers"[88]
Heaven Before it Was Wanted[41]
Helping Business[48]
Highland Happiness[18]
Highland Simplicity[85]
Highland Warldliness[200]
His Own, with "Interest"[193]
His Word and His Bond Equally Binding[131]
Holding a Candle to the Sun[124]
Honest Johnny M'Cree[40]
How Greyhounds are Produced[203]
How to Exterminate Old Thieves[86]
How to Treat a Surplus[89]
Husband! Husband! Cease Your Strife![154]
Hume Canonized[160]
Inconsistencies of "God's People"[151]
Indiscriminate Humor[39]
Ingenious Remedy for Ignorance[200]
"Invisible and Incomprehensible"[96]
It Takes Two to Fight[190]
It's a Gran' Nicht[55]
"Kaming" Her Ain Head[171]
Keeping His Threat—at His Own Expense[145]
"Knowledge—It Shall Vanish Away"[106]
Knox and Claverhouse[153]
Landseer's Deadly Influence[89]
Laughing in the Pulpit—With Explanation[37]
"Law" Set Aside by "Gospel"[106]
Leaving the Lawyers a Margin[129]
Less Sense Than a Sheep[41]
Lessons in Theology[15]
"Lichts Oot!"[107]
Light Through a Crack[14]
Lights and Livers[193]
Living With His Uncle[165]
Looking After Himself[193]
Looking Before Leaping[107]
Lord Clancarty and the Roman Catholic Chaplain[113]
Lord Cockburn Confounded[201]
Lord Mansfield and a Scotch Barrister on Pronunciation[114]
Losing His Senses[51]
Lost Dogs[80]
"Lost Labor"[149]
"Making Hay While the Sun Shines"[112]
Mallet, Plane, and Sermon—All Wooden[23]
Marriages which are Made in Heaven—How Revealed[115]
"Married!"—not "Living"[79]
Matrimony a Cure for Blindness[93]
Matter More than Manner[90]
Maunderings by a Scotchman[184]
Meanness versus Crustiness[192]
Mending Matters[95]
Mental Aberration[70]
Minding His Business[79]
Modern Improvements[152]
More Polite than Some Smokers[100]
More Witty Than True[136]
Mortal Humor[176]
Mortifying Unanimity[43]
Motive for Church Going[142]
Multum in Parvo[62]
National Thrift Exemplified[94]
Nearer the Bottom than the Top[175]
New Style of Riding in a Funeral Procession[145]
New Use for a "Cosy"[95]
"No Better than Pharaoh"[143]
"No Compliments"[202]
No End to His Wit[129]
"No Lord's Day!"[34]
"No Road This Way!"[159]
No Wonder![27]
Not all Profit[89]
Not at Home[101]
Not "in Chains"[163]
Not Necessarily Out of His Depth[98]
Not One of "The Establishment"[143]
Not Qualified to Baptize[213]
Not Quite an Ass[212]
Not Surprised[210]
Not Up to Sample[116]
Not Used to It[141]
"Nothing," and How to See It[133]
Objecting to Long Sermons[161]
Objecting to "Regeneration"[30]
Objecting to Scotch "Tarmes"[140]
Official Consolation and Callousness[139]
"Old Bags"[107]
"Old Clo'"[197]
One "Always Right," the Other "Never Wrong"[14]
One Scotchman Outwitted by Another[214]
One Side of Scotch Humor[82]
"Oo"—with Variations[116]
Ornithology[207]
Paris and Peebles Contrasted[57]
Passing Remarks[197]
Patriotism and Economy[154]
Peter Peebles' Prejudice[33]
Pie, or Patience?[89]
"Plain Scotch"[19]
Plain Speaking[93]
Playing at Ghosts[157]
Pleasant Prospect Beyond the Grave[138]
"Plucked!"[36]
Popularity Tested by the Collection[118]
Practical Piety[172]
Practical Thrift[75]
"Prayer, with Thanksgiving"[206]
Praying for Wind[109]
Pretending to Make a Will[133]
Prince Albert and the Ship's Cook[77]
Prison Piety[61]
Prof Aytoun's Courtship[209]
Prophesying[130]
Providing a Mouthful for the Cow[149]
Pulpit Aids[76]
Pulpit Eloquence[183]
Pulpit Familiarity[165]
Pulpit Foolery[138]
"Purpose," not "Performance," Heaven's Standard[147]
Putting off a Duel and Avoiding a Quarrel[206]
Quaint Old Edinburgh Ministers[215]
Qualifications for a Chief[26]
Question and Answer[127]
Quid Pro Quo[34]
Radically Rude[168]
Reasons For and Against Organs in Kirk[31]
"Reflections"[28]
Refusing Information[85]
Relieving His Wife's Anxiety[168]
Religious Loneliness[61]
Remarkable Presence of Mind[86]
Remembering Each Other[115]
Reproving a Miser[83]
"Rippets" and Humility[170]
Rival Anatomists in Edinburgh University[49]
Rivalry in Prayer[179]
Robbing on Credit[75], [127]
Rustic Notion of the Resurrection[128]
Sabbath Breaking[85]
Sabbath Zeal[123]
"Saddling the Ass"[102]
Salmon or Sermon[104]
Sandy's Reply to the Sheriff[120]
Sandy Wood's Proposal of Marriage[49]
Satisfactory Security[114]
Scoring a Point[13]
Scotch Caution versus Suretiship[105]
Scotch "Fashion"[18]
Scotch Ingenuity[137]
Scotch Literalness[98]
Scotch "Paddy"[35]
Scotch Provincialism[100]
Scotch Undergraduates and Funerals[39]
Scotchmen Everywhere[180]
Scottish Negativeness[96]
Scottish Patriotism[147]
Scottish Vision and Cockney Chaff[197]
Scripture Examination[87]
Sectarian Resemblances[166]
Seeking, Not Help, but Information—and Getting It[34]
Sending Him to Sleep[152]
Shakespeare—Nowhere![159]
Sharpening His Teeth[92]
Sheridan's Pauses[208]
"Short Commons"[137]
Short Measure[57]
Significant Advice[204]
Silencing English Insolence[48]
Simplicity of a Collier's Wife[108]
Sleepy Churchgoers[170]
Speaking Figuratively[112]
Speaking from "Notes"[74]
Speeding the Parting Guest[192]
Spiking an Old Gun[156]
Spinning It Out[100]
Splendid Use for Bagpipes[171]
Square-Headed[84]
Strange Reason for Not Increasing a Minister's Stipend[183]
Strangers—"Unawares"—Not Always Angels[28]
Stratagem of a Scotch Pedlar[80]
Steeple or People?[159]
Stretching It[69]
Sunday Drinking[181]
Sunday Shaving and Milking[70]
Sunday Thoughts on Recreation[167]
"Surely the Net is Spread in Vain in the Sight of Any Bird"[64]
Taking a Light Supper[128]
"Terms—'Cash Down'"[132]
"The" and "The Other"[197]
The Best Crap[210]
The Best Time to Quarrel[146]
The Book Worms[148]
The Chieftain and the Cabby[88]
The End Justifying the Means[45]
The Fall of Adam and Its Consequences[85]
The Fly-fisher and the Highland Lassie[101]
The Force of Habit[204]
The Highlander and the Angels[82]
The Horse that Kept His Promise[146]
The Importance of Quantity in Scholarship[35]
The Journeyman Dog[60]
The Kirk of Lamington[149]
The Man at the Wheel[156]
The Mercy of Providence[59]
The "Minister's Man"[177]
The Parson and His "Thirdly"[136]
The Philosophy of Battle and Victory[154]
The Prophet's Chamber[160]
The Queen's Daughters—or "Appearances were Against Them"[116]
The "Sawbeth" at a Country Inn[180]
The Scotch Mason and the Angel[135]
The Speech of a Cannibal[162]
The Scottish Credit System[35]
The Selkirk Grace[151]
The Shape of the Earth[178]
The Shoemaker and Small Feet[137]
The Same with a Difference[139]
"The Spigot's Oot"[193]
The "Tables" of "the Law"[110]
The Value of a Laugh in Sickness[92]
"The Weaker Vessel"[79]
"There Maun Be Some Faut"[172]
"Things which Accompany Salvation"[192]
"Though Lost to Sight—to Memory Dear"[153]
Three Sisters All One Age[19]
Tired of Standing[61]
"To Memory 'Dear'"[78]
Too Canny to Admit Anything Particular[42]
Too Much Light—and Too Little[31]
Touching Each Other's Limitations[165]
True (perhaps) of Other Places than Dundee[133]
Trying One Grave First[90]
Trying to Shift the Job[94]
Turning His Father's Weakness to Account[36]
"Two Blacks Don't Make a White"[158]
Two Good Memories[83]
Two Methods of Getting a Dog Out of Church[174]
Two Questions on the Fall of Man[162]
Two Views of a Divine Call[58]
Two Ways of Mending Ways[160]
Unanswerable[75]
"Uncertainty of Life," from Two Good Points of View[148]
"Unco' Modest"[30]
Unusual for a Scotchman[134]
"Ursa Major"[207]
Using Their Senses[24]
Vanity Scathingly Reproved[203]
"Verra Weel Pitched"[118]
Virtuous Necessity[27]
Was He a Liberal or a Tory?[123]
Walloping Judas[56]
Watty Dunlop's Sympathy for Orphans[18]
Wersh Parritch and Wersh Kisses[198]
"What's the Lawin', Lass?"[190]
When Asses may not be Parsons[62]
Why Israel made a Golden Calf[92]
Why Janet Slept During Her Pastor's Sermon[99]
Why Not?[133]
Why Saul Threw a Javelin at David[182]
Why the Bishops Disliked the Bible[139]
Will any Gentleman Oblige "a Lady"?[150]
Winning the Race Instead of the Battle[207]
Wiser than Solomon[152]
"Wishes Never Filled the Bag"[141]
Wit and Humor Under Difficulties[198]

LIST OF KNOWN WORKS AND AUTHORITIES QUOTED
(Indicated in the Text by a Corresponding Number)

1 Life and Labor(Smiles)
2(Robert Burns)
3(Pall Mall Gazette)
4(Dr. Chas. Stewart)
5(Norman Macleod)
6(Dr. Begg)
7(Dean Ramsay)
8 National Fun(Maurice Davies)
9 Anecdotes of the Clergy(Jacob Larwood)
10(William Arnott)
11(Moncure D. Conway)
12 Rab and His Friends(Rev. John Brown)
13 Memoir of R. Chambers(William Chambers)
14 Memorials(Lord Cockburn)
15(Dr. Guthrie)
16(Anonymous)
17(Daily News)
18 Turkey in Europe(Colonel J. Baker)
19 All the Year Round(Charles Dickens)
20 Red Gauntlet(Sir Walter Scott)
21(Chambers' Journal)
22(Dr. Hanna)
23(Sir W. Scott)
24(James Hogg)
25(Rev. D. Hogg)
26(J. Smith)

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