n three
hundred and forty-eight thousand pounds.

"But then their piety, their piety; weel, let's luke at it; hing it
up by the nape o' the neck, and turn it round atween our finger and
thumb on all sides.

"Is there one school in all Scotland where the helpless, homeless
poor are fed and clothed at the public expense? None.

"Is there a hame in all Scotland for the cleanly but sick servant
maid to go till, until health be restored? Alas! there is none.

"Is there a school in all Scotland for training ladies in the
higher branches of learning? None. What then is there for the women
of Scotland?

* * * * *

"A weel, be sure and try a cupful of Scottish Kail Broase. See, and
get a sup Scotch _lang milk_.

"Hand this bit line yout to the Rev. Mr. ----. Tell him to store
out fats nae true.

"God bless you, and set you safe hame, is the prayer of the old
Scotch Bachelor."

I think you will agree with me, that the old testifying spirit does not
seem to have died out in Scotland, and that the backslidings and
abominations of the land do not want for able exponents.

As the indictment runs back to the time of Charles II., to the
persecutions of the Quakers in the days of Barclay of Ury, and brings up
again the most modern offences, one cannot but feel that there are the
most savory indications in it of Scotch thoroughness.

Some of the questions which he wishes to have me "_speer_" at Aberdeen,
I fear, alas! would bring but an indifferent answer even in Boston,
which gives a high school only to boys, and allows none to girls. On one
point, it seems to me, my friend might speer himself to advantage, and
that is the very commendable efforts which are being made now in
Edinburgh and Aberdeen both, in the way of educating the children of the
poor.

As this is one of the subjects which are particularly on my mind, and as
all information which we can get upon this subject is peculiarly
valuable to us in view of commencing efforts in America, I will abridge
for you an account of the industrial schools of Aberdeen, published by
the society for improving the condition of the laboring classes, in
their paper called the Laborer's Friend.

In June, 1841, it was ascertained that in Aberdeen there were two
hundred and eighty children, under fourteen years of age, who maintained
themselves professedly by begging