HENDERSON, who always seated himself
on the cross-benches when any person appeared to claim more than his share
of political knowledge or talent, was at an evening party where one of the
guests, a recent convert from Radicalism, was abusing, in no measured
language, the party with whom he had lately associated. Andrew, eyeing him
askance, said:
"Just let him alane, lads, till he
come till himsel’—he’s ill wi’ the spaining-brash,"—i.e.,
milk-fever, a fit of illness to which children are subject when weaning,
induced by the change of food.
