"SKINNY-MA-LINKY!"

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 213, 3 June 1919, Page 5

"SKINNY-MA-LINKY!"

EXAMPLE OP SCOTTISH CHEEK,

i The following example of juvenile ! Scottish cheek was related by a New ; Zealand lady who recently returned from ' a visit to Scotland. AVilh another New ' Zealand lady she was awaiting the arrival of a train at a railway station in j the Highlands. A lady of' the uroud i duchess type and stylishly dressed swept I on to the railway platform, and commenced to walk to and fro, the centre of female admiration. As she stalked • along filio was spied by a wee grimy , Scotch urchin, seated on top of the raiii way pate. Tho urchin evidently knew ; the lady's name and history, for lie commenced, and kept repeating in a shrill cheeky voice, set to music: "Hey, Mrs. Daniels, think y'ere awfu' neat. Skinny-mn-linky, lanky legs, umbrella feet." . Mrs. Daniels, let it be said, hail no means of escape, her train was not due for five minutes, and she had imagined live minutes' proud display before the r-Vfopn crowd. Tnstead she'had to suffer - Ibis miniature Lauder and his chant, and dive for the handiest carriage when the train arrived. The chant, being repeated so -nflen :\nd with such a swing, inflicted itself on the memories of the two ; New Zoalanders, so that the mere sight , j of a proudly adorned duchess recalls it,

Johnny Mathieson. the "Fighting Soot," who was well known at the.'National Snorting Club, died at Aberdeen recontly. - Mathioson had beaten such boxers as Pat O'Keefe, Pat Breslm, and the Dixie Kid. and was for 6gme time ilia sparring partner to Lang, tho Australian champion. He fought in tho South African AA'ar wi|h the Seaforth Highlanders, and was twtoo severely wounded In Prance.