15 NOVEMBER 1913, Page 33

GRACE BEFORE AND AFTER MEAT.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sin,—Your correspondent desiring forms of grace before meat stipulates that they shall be in English. He may not object to be reminded of two in Scots. Sir Robert Grierson of Lag, scourge of Covenanters, used the following:-

" Oh, Lord! we're aye gangin' and we're aye gettin'. We should aye be comin' to Thee, but we're aye forgettin'."

The other is Burns's well-known one :— "Some has meat, and canna eat;

And some can eat that want it ; But we hae meat, and we can eat, And sae—the Lord be thankit."

Monreith.