"i'm Awa'

-Dean Ramsay tells an amusing story of the cool self-sufficiency of the young Soottish domestio - a boy, who, in a very quiet, determiaed way, made his exit f rom a house into which he had been very late introduced. He had been told that he should be dismissed if he broke any of the china under his charge. On the morning of a great dinner party he was entrusted (rather rashly) with a great load of plates, which he was to carry up stairs f rom the kitchen to the dining-room, and whioh Tvere piled up and rested on his two hands, going up stairs his foot slipped, and the plates were broken to atoms. He at once went up to the drawing-room, put his head in at the door, and shouted, "The plates are a' smashed, and I'm awa"