[33] Lord Cockburn's _Memorials of his Time_, p. 37, _et seq_.
[34] May we never be cast down by adversity, or unduly elevated by
prosperity.
[35] A toast at parting or breaking up of the party.
[36] Loving
[37] Plenty
[38] Toast for agricultural dinners
[39] Ghastly.
[40] The scene is described and place mentioned in Dr. Strang's account
of Glasgow Clubs, p. 104, 2d edit.
[41] Swept.
CHAPTER THE FOURTH.
ON THE OLD SCOTTISH DOMESTIC SERVANT.
I come now to a subject on which a great change has taken place in this
country during my own experience--viz. those peculiarities of
intercourse which some years back marked the connection between masters
and servants. In many Scottish houses a great familiarity prevailed
between members of the family and the domestics. For this many reasons
might have been assigned. Indeed, when we consider the simple modes of
life, which discarded the ideas of ceremony or etiquette; the retired
and uniform style of living, which afforded few opportunities for any
change in the domestic arrangements; and when we add to these a free,
unrestrained, unformal, and natural style of intercommunion, which seems
rather a national characteristic, we need not be surprised to find in
quiet Scottish families a sort of intercourse with old domestics which
can hardly be looked for at a time when habits are so changed, and where
much of the quiet eccentricity belonging to us as a national
characteristic is almost necessarily softened down or driven out.
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