Présentation de l'éditeur
Professor of one of our Universities not long since pointed out howS cotland was remarkable for three things Songs, Sermons, andS hillings. And whilst it may not be dispiited that she has enormous and everincreasing store of these three good things and that, moreover, she loves them all there is a fourth quality of her many-sided nature which is more distinctly characteristic of Auld Caledonia and her people, and that is the general possession of the faculty of original humour. Not one in ten thousand of theS cottish people may be able to produce a good song, or a good sermon ;not one in twenty thousand of them may be able to gather meikle gear and haud it weel thegither; but every secondS cotsman is a born humourist. Humour is part and parcel of his very being. He may not live without it may not breathe. Consequently, it is found breaking out amongst us in the most unlikely as well as in the most likely places.
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