' father ; oMhe Marquess of Bute (says a ."Chronicle" ■-writer) hud an amusing experience in • the neighbourhood of Rothesay. He. met a (Cockney tourist, who asked to bo directed to a certain place. .'Deceived by the Marquess's' accent, the' visitor took, liim for a Southron, and lnude supercilious remarks 1 about the barbarous islanders of liute. Soon he said, "I suppose you're like me, an Knglinhman?" "No," responded the Marquess, "I'm a native ofBute, this island." "Good gracious!'* exclaimed the Londoner. "Then who in the dooce tamed yer?" Lord Bute assumed a very 1 fierce expression, and. raising a cudgel'lie was carrying, hissed vicionsly, "Who says I'm tame?" The Cockney fled. ' Sixteen millions., of "mackerel' have been landed tliis fishing season at Nowlyn, Cornwall, England.; • ; Constable, giving, evidence: "I ivks ill lied and hsleep when I heard prisoner making a disturbance."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 15, 12 October 1907, Page 15
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