The minister of a parish in Dumfriesshire had a man who had long and faithfully served at the manse.

Tom had carried his pigs to a better than any Dumfriesshire market.

In Scotland this is generally a very rare butterfly, but has latterly been abundant in Dumfriesshire and Kirkcudbrightshire.

She is, indeed, “something distinct from the Dumfriesshire gipsy”—in truth, she rather resembles the Ulrica of “Ivanhoe.”