"If he didna turn on me like a tiger.

"'Div ye mean tae say--'

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

"'Well, doctor,' begins he, as brisk as a magpie, 'you're here atlast; there's no hurry with you Scotchmen. My boy has been sick allnight, and I've never had one wink of sleep. You might have come alittle quicker, that's all I've got to say.'

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

"'I'm astonished to hear you speak. 0ur doctor at home always saysto Mrs. '0pps, "Look on me as a family friend, Mrs. '0pps, and sendfor me though it be only a headache."'

"'He'd be mair sparin' o' his offers if he hed four and twenty miletae look aifter. There's naethin' wrang wi' yir laddie but greed.Gie him a gude dose o' castor oil and stop his meat for a day, an'he 'ill be a' richt the morn.'