" NAE , SCOTCHMAN " 205 



confess, she will generally on such occasions cover the lower 

 part of her face with her handkerchief and pretend to have 

 toothache, which malady could not exist if there were no 

 teeth in her head. It must have been a Russian whom the 

 Scotch lassie of the story married. She was pretty and 

 charming in every way, except that she was slightly lame. 

 On returning to her native country after a few years' absence, 



Photo by\ [von Halm & Co. 



FIG. 50. The Trotting Ground at the Semenovsky Platz, St. Petersburg. 



she met an old lady friend, who seeing that she looked 

 rather sad, asked what was troubling her. She replied that 

 she had married a Scotchman ; but unfortunately she had 

 before marriage concealed from him the fact that she had a 

 wooden leg, the discovery of which, after the knot had been 

 tied, made him hate her for want of candour. "He was nae 

 Scotchman ! " ejaculated the ancient dame with quite un- 

 necessarv vehemence. 



