lish or Dutch--not Scotch.

I had intended in the close of this paper to analyse and compare the
characters of Andrew Fairservice and Richie Moniplies for examples, the
former of innate evil, unaffected by external influences, and
undiseased, but distinct from natural goodness as a nettle is distinct
from balm or lavender; and the latter of innate goodness, contracted and
pinched by circumstance, but still undiseased, as an oak-leaf crisped by
frost, not by the worm. This, with much else in my mind, I must put off;
but the careful study of one sentence of Andrew's will give us a good
deal to think of.

I take his account of the rescue of Glasgow Cathedral at the time of the
Reformation.

Ah! it's a brave kirk--nane o' yere whigmaleeries and
curliewurlies and opensteek hems about it--a' solid,
weel-jointed mason-wark, that will stand as lang as the
warld, keep hands and gunpowther aff it. It had amaist a
douncome lang syne at the Reformation, when they pu'd doun
the kirks of St. Andrews and Perth, and thereawa', to
cleanse them o' Papery, and idolatry, and image-worship, and
surplices, and sic-like rags o' the muckle hure that sitteth
on seven hills, as if ane wasna braid eneugh for her auld
hinder end. Sae the commons o' Renfrew, and o' the Barony,
and the Gorbals, and a' about, they behoved to come into
Glasgow ae fair morning, to try their hand on purging the
High Kirk o' Popish nicknackets. But the townsmen o'
Glasgow, they were feared their auld edifice might slip the
girths in gaun through siccan rough physic, sae they rang
the common bell, and assembled the train-bands wi' took o'
drum. By good luck, the worthy James Rabat was Dean o' Guild
that year--(and a gude mason he was himsell, made him the
keener to keep up the auld bigging), and the trades
assembled, and offered downright battle to the commons,
rather than their kirk should coup the crans, as others had
done elsewhere. It wasna for luve o' Paperie--na, na!--nane
could ever say that o' the trades o' Glasgow--Sae they sune
came to an agreement to take a' the idolatrous statues of
sants (sorrow be on them!) out o' their neuks--And sae the
bits o' stane idols were broken in pieces by Scripture
warrant, and flung into the Molendinar burn, and the auld
kirk stood as crouse as a cat when the flaes are kaimed aff
h