The only satisfaction she got was the quiet answer, "Na, na, my lady; I druve ye to your marriage, and I shall stay to drive ye to your burial." Indeed, we have heard of a still stronger assertion of his official position by one who met an order to quit his master's service by the cool reply, "Na, na; I'm no gangin'.

If ye dinna ken whan ye've a gude servant; I ken whan I've a gude place." It is but fair, however, to give an anecdote in which the master and the servant's position was _reversed_, in regard to a wish for change:--An old servant of a relation of my own with an ungovernable temper, became at last so weary of his master's irascibility, that he declared he must leave, and gave as his reason the fits of anger which came on, and produced such great annoyance that he could not stand it any longer.

His master, unwilling to lose him, tried to coax him by reminding him that the anger was soon off.

"Ay," replied the other very shrewdly, "but it's nae suner aff than it's on again." I remember well an old servant of the old school, who had been fifty years domesticated in a family.

Indeed I well remember the celebration of the half-century service completed.
There were rich scenes with Sandy and his mistress.