xt week at the new carrier who got
the goodwill of James's business, and was now master of Jess and her
cart. "How's Rab?" He put me off, and said rather rudely, "What's _your_
business wi' the dowg?" I was not to be so put off. "Where's Rab?" He,
getting confused and red, and intermeddling with his hair, said, "'Deed,
sir, Rab's deid." "Dead! what did he die of?" "Weel, sir," said he,
getting redder, "he didna exactly dee; he was killed. I had to brain him
wi' a rack-pin; there was nae doin' wi' him. He lay in the treviss wi'
the mear, and wadna come oot. I tempit him wi' kail and meat, but he wad
tak naething, and keepit me frae feedin' the beast, and he was aye gur
gurrin', and grup gruppin' me by the legs. I was laith to make awa wi'
the auld dowg, his like wasna atween this and Thornhill,--but, 'deed,
sir, I could do naething else." I believed him. Fit end for Rab, quick
and complete. His teeth and his friends gone, why should he keep the
peace, and be civil?

"_With BRAINS, Sir._"

"_Multi multa sciunt, pauci multum._"

"_It is one thing to_ wish to have truth on our side, _and
another thing to wish to be_ on the side of truth."--WHATELY.

"{Atalaiporos tois pollois he zetesis tes alepheias, kai
epi ta hetoima mallon trepontai.}"--THUCYDIDES.

"_The most perfect philosophy of the_ natural _kind, only staves
off our_ IGNORANCE _a little longer; as, perhaps, the most
perfect philosophy of the_ moral or metaphysical _kind, serves
only to discover larger portions of it._"--DAVID HUME.

"Pray, Mr. Opie, may I ask what you mix your colors with?" said a brisk
dilettante student to the great painter. "With _Brains_, sir," was the
gruff reply--and the right one. It did not give much of what we call
information; it did not expound the principles and rules of the art;
but, if the inquirer had the commodity referred to, it would awaken him;
it would set him a-going, a-thinking, and a-painting to good purpose. If
he had not the wherewithal, as was likely enough, the less he had to do
with colors and their mixture the better. Many other artists, when asked
such a question, would have either set about detailing the mechanical
composition of such and such colors, in such and such proportions,
rubbed up so and so; or perhaps they would (and so much the better, but
not the best) have shown him how they laid them on; but even this would
leave him at the critical point. Opie preferred