A Good Story

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 57, 31 October 1889, Page 2

A Good Story

Mr John McLean, who has earned such an unenviable notoriety because of his connection with Mr Buckley in Bank of New Zealand matters, is not such a bad sort of fellow,, though he has — or had — an unusual amount of the most objectionable kind of Highland pride. A story was told of him in the early days that he once entered a room where a lady, on | whom he was a bit " gone," was sitting, in conversation with a gentleman he more than. suspected was a rival. As the latter was in the midst of an interesting remark the lady omitted to rise so soon as onr Highland friend Jiked. He looked scornfully at the other fellow and.said, " Stewart, you think yourselt a fine fellow ; put she'll run you, or she'll chump you, or she'll fecht you in some sawpits," and stalked snorting from the room. He once said of himself, " She's a fine man apout ta head and ta shoulders, but she falls off in ta legs."