rden
where the neighbors were gathered, the "wricht" was
Exp.+_m_2_ removing his tray and not a glass had been touched. 13.
Then I guessed that Drumtochty had a sense of the fitness
of things and was stirred to its depths.

14. "Ye saw the wricht carry in his tray," said Drumsheigh
as he went home from the kirkyard.

_m_3d_ 15. "Weel, yon's the last sicht o't ye' ill get or a'm no
_m_3k_ Drumsheigh. 16. I've nae objection masel' to a neighbor
tastin' at a funeral, a' the more if he's come from the
upper end o' the pairish, and ye ken I dinna hold wi' thae
_m_3d_ teetotal fouk. 17. A'm ower auld in the horn to change noo.
_m_3/F_2b_ 18. But there's times and seasons, as the Gude Buik says,
and it wud hae been an awfu' like business tae luik at a
gless in Marget's Garden, and puir Domsie standing in ahent
the brier bush as if he cud never lift his heid again."

=27. Interpretative Application of the Symbols.=--A little discussion of
the foregoing from a "A Scholar's Funeral" in the "Bonnie Brier Bush"
may serve to make some of these things clearer. The fact that the
"wricht" is silent here in the first sentence makes us know that this is
the usual custom and that these people have an underlying sense of
decorum. Sentence two has the same effect in their abstraction, and this
is emphasized again in the "two graven images." The third sentence is a
mood "effect" of kind, since we recognize the conventionally sobered
feeling without the "settled melancholy." This is true again in sentence
four, and in five we have a "fact as effect," drawing the inference that
they are a long-lived race in Drumtochty. From the yielding to an
invitation so framed as to put aside the semblance of yielding to
inclination, we get a knowledge of character which seems to us
individual, but which is used by the author to indicate a local
community characteristic. The author's mood of amused observation is
evident here, too, in his unbelieving acquiescence in Tammas's point of
view. In sentences eight and nine we come to know Jeems in a more
individual way, through the mingling in him of moods of conventional
solemnity and everyday discussion. This is repeated in sentence ten. In
sentence twelve we draw an emotional inference concerning the degree of
their feeling from the fact that "not a glass had