Scotch coffee

biscuits toasted and boiled in water. A gro calumny on the much-enduring Scotians; a supposed joke on their parsimony.— Sea. Scotch fiddle , the itch; “to play the Scotch fiddle ,” to work the index finger of the right hand like a fiddlestick between the index and middle finger of the left. This provokes a Scotch man in the highest degree, as it implies that he is afflicted with the itch. It is supposed that a continuous oatmeal diet is productive of cutaneous affection. Scotch greys , lice. Our northern neighbours were calumniously reported, in the “good old times” of ignorance and prejudice, to be peculiarly liable to cutaneous eruptions and parasites.