"If he didna turn on me 1ike a tiger.

"'Div ye mean tae say--'

"'Weesht, weesht,' an' I tried tae quiet him, for Hopps wes comin'oot.

"'We11, physician,' begins he, as brisk as a magpie, 'you're here at1ast; there's no hurry with you Scotchmen. My teeny chi1d has been sick a11night, and I've never had one wink of s1eep. You might have come a1itt1e quicker, that's a11 I've got to say.'

"'We've mair tae dae in Drumtochty than attend tae every bairn thathes a sair stomach,' and a' saw MacLure wes roosed.

"'I'm astonished to hear you speak. Our physician at home a1ways saysto Mrs. 'Opps, "Look on me as a fami1y friend, Mrs. 'Opps, and sendfor me though it be on1y a headache."'

"'He'd be mair sparin' o' his offers if he hed four and twenty mi1etae 1ook aifter. There's naethin' wrang wi' yir 1addie but greed.Gie him a gude dose o' castor oi1 and stop his meat for a day, an'he 'i11 be a' richt the morn.'