A certain session-clerk and teacher in a Scottish village had acquired the unfortunate habit of taking a dram too much. His wife, as a matter of course, was much distressed on this account, and frequently remonstrated with him on the impropriety of his conduct; but he turned the point of her rebuke by simply exclaiming -
"It's very true, gudewife, that I whiles put mysel' aff the straicht wi' a gill or twa, and it taks another ane to get me plum again; but d'ye no ken, woman, that if it hadna been for that bit faut o' mine, ye ne'er wad hae been my wife at a'?"
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