.«
    »It's ower true, Mr. Butler,« answered Bartoline, with a sigh; »if I had had
the luck - or rather, if my father had had the sense to send me to Leyden and
Utrecht to learn the Substitutes and Pandex« -
    »You mean the Institutes - Justinian's Institutes, Mr. Saddletree?« said
Butler.
    »Institutes and substitutes are synonymous words, Mr. Butler, and used
indifferently as such in deeds of tailzie, as you may see in Balfour's
Practiques, or Dallas of St. Martin's Styles. I understand these things pretty
weel, I thank God; but I own I should have studied in Holland.«
    »To comfort you, you might not have been farther forward than you are now,
Mr. Saddletree,« replied Mr. Butler; »for our Scottish advocates are an
aristocratic race. Their brass is of the right Corinthian quality, and Non
cuivis contigit adire Corinthum - Aha, Mr. Saddletree?«
    »And aha, Mr. Butler,« rejoined Bartoline, upon whom, as may be well
supposed, the jest was lost, and all but the sound of the words, »ye said a
gliff syne it was quivis, and now I heard ye say cuivis with my ain ears, as
plain as ever I heard a word at the fore-bar.«
    »Give me your patience, Mr. Saddletree, and I'll explain the discrepancy in
three words,« said Butler, as pedantic in his own department, though with
infinitely more judgment and learning, as Bartoline was in his self-assumed
profession of the law - »Give me your patience for a moment - You'll grant that
the nominative case is that by which a person or thing is nominated or designed,
and which may be called the primary case, all others being formed from it by
alterations of the termination in the learned languages, and by prepositions in
our modern Babylonian jargons - You'll grant me that, I suppose, Mr.
Saddletree?«
    »I dinna ken whether I will or no - ad avisandum, ye ken - naebody should be
in a hurry to make admissions, either in point of law, or in point of fact,«
said Saddletree, looking, or endeavouring to look, as if he understood what was
said.
    »And the dative case,« continued Butler -
    »I ken what a tutor dative is,« said Saddletree, »readily enough.«
    »The dative case,« resumed the grammarian, »is that in
