Spring-time recalls this story of the late Lord Robertson, a Scots Judge. Ha was asked to explain what sort of bird a bul-bul was, and he replied, "I suppose it is the male of the coo-coo."
An English lady, visiting the Highlands, and desiring to hear a Gaelic sermon, went reverently to church. On returning to her summer abode, she said that Gaelic must be an easy language, because, though it was entirely new to her, she had understood a good deal of what the minister—said. Afterwards it was discovered that she had gone to the English service.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.