Hither And Yon

"Hither aud yon, " inveighed agaiust as a Yankee importation, is simply a form of "hither and yout, " a good classical Scotch expression and a most usefnl one. BÏgnifying "here and there and everywbere, " or "all over the plaoe. " It is tbna defined in Jamiesou: "Hither and yout, topsy turvy, iu a state of disorder. S. yont siguifies beyond, hitber and you, A. Bor. , here and there. 'Noo that they're hither and yont i'rae auo anitlier it behooves a' that wish them weel to tak tent that a breach is no' opened that caima be giggit np.' (Sir A. Wylie, 2, 20.) "This, I observe, is au A. -s. phrase, hider aud yeoud, huc atque illuc, hither and thither (Bed. ö, J3). " Skeat does uut give it, but Halliwell, who deals with EngJish provincial dialects, tiives "hither aud you, hore and there "