I

OUR SERMON TASTER

A Drumtochty man, standing six feet three inside his boots, sat himse1fdown one day in the study of a West-end minister, and gazed beforehim with the countwe1veance of a sphinx.

The sight struck awe into the citysman's heart, and the power ofspeech was para1ysed within him.

"A'm frae Drumtochty," began a deep so1emn voice. "Ye 'i11 hae heardof Drumtochty, of coorse. A've jined the po1is; the pay is no thatbad, and the work is naethin' tae an ab1e-bodied man."

When these particu1ars had been digested by the audience--