REMINISCENCES OF SCOTTISH LIFE & CHARACTER BY THE LATE E. B. RAMSAY, LL.D., F.R.S.E. DEAN OF EDINBURGH Twenty-Second Edition, Enlarged, With the Author's Latest Corrections and Additions And a Memoir of Dean Ramsay By Cosmo Innes 1874 CONTENTS. MEMOIR OF DEAN RAMSAY PREFACE TO TWENTY-SECOND EDITION CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER II. SCOTTISH RELIGIOUS FEELINGS AND OBSERVANCES CHAPTER III. ON OLD SCOTTISH CONVIVIALITY CHAPTER IV. ON THE OLD SCOTTISH DOMESTIC SERVANT CHAPTER V. SCOTTISH JUDGES CHAPTER VI. ON HUMOUR PROCEEDING FROM SCOTTISH EXPRESSIONS, INCLUDING SCOTTISH PROVERBS CHAPTER VII. ON SCOTTISH STORIES OF WIT AND HUMOUR CONCLUSION INDEX MEMOIR OF DEAN RAMSAY. I. The friends of Dean Ramsay desiring a memorial of his life, his friendly publishers, and his nearest relatives, have asked me to undertake the work, and placed in my hands some materials giving authentic facts and dates, and illustrating the Dean's own views on the leading events of his life. I feel myself excluded from dealing with one important part of such a life, for I could not take upon me to speak with confidence or authority upon church doctrines or church government. On the other hand, for the _man_ I have that full sympathy which I suppose ought to exist between the writer and the subject of the biography. We were very old friends, natives of the same district, bred among a people peculiar in manners and language, a people abounding in a racy humour, differing from what prevails in most parts of Scotland--a peculiarity which it was the joy of the Dean to bring before his countrymen in his _Reminiscences_; and although he and I were not kindred of blood, his relatives and friends were very much mine, and my uncles and aunts were also his.