What we have now chiefly to illustrate by suitable anecdotes is peculiarities of Scottish language--its various humorous turns and odd expressions.
We have now to consider stories where words and expressions, which are peculiarly Scotch, impart the humour and the point.

Sometimes they are altogether incapable of being rendered in other language.

As, for example, a parishioner in an Ayrshire village, meeting his pastor, who had just returned after a considerable absence on account of ill health, congratulated him on his convalescence, and added, anticipatory of the pleasure he would have in hearing him again, "I'm unco yuckie to hear a blaud o' your gab." This is an untranslatable form of saying how glad he should be to hear his minister's voice again speaking to him the words of salvation and of peace from the pulpit.
The two following are good examples of that Scottish style of expression which has its own character.

They are kindly sent by Sir Archibald Dunbar.

The first illustrates Scottish acute discernment.