High Living

A manufacturer of Paisley, after a long life of severe toil, and little indulgence in the comforts of life, was sud-
denly enriched at last by the death of a relative in the West Indies, who bequeathed him the bulk of his fortune.
The old man was soon afterwards at Edinburgh, where he happened to be introduced to Lord Monboddo, to whom,
at the same time, the story of his late acquisition of fortune was related.

“Then,” said Monboddo, contemplating the spare figure of his new acquaintance, “you ought to live generously; you and your wife should begin to take a glass or two of wine, and otherwise improve your diet a little.”

“Ay, auld man,” said the Paisley weaver, evidently thinking the advice completely anticipated by the alteration he had already effected in his system of domestic economy, “we take porridge and MILK to our supper now.”

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