A lady asked the mother very kindly about her daughter, and said she hoped she liked her new home and new relations.
"Ou, my lady, she likes the parish weel eneuch, but she doesna think muckle o' her _man_!" The natives of Aberdeenshire are distinguished for the two qualities of being very acute in their remarks and very peculiar in their language.
Any one may still gain a thorough knowledge of Aberdeen dialect and see capital examples of Aberdeen humour.

I have been supplied with a remarkable example of this combination of Aberdeen shrewdness with Aberdeen dialect.

In the course of the week after the Sunday on which several elders of an Aberdeen parish had been set apart for parochial offices, a knot of the parishioners had assembled at what was in all parishes a great place of resort for idle gossiping--the smiddy or blacksmith's workshop.

The qualifications of the new elders were severely criticised.

One of the speakers emphatically laid down that the minister should not have been satisfied, and had in fact made a most unfortunate choice.