"ENOUGH OF THAT."
. John Clerk was sent to London to plead! before Lord Chancellor Eldon in an important property cause. His Scottish accent was always the same; and under any circumstances he used the very broadest of Doric. In the course of hisspeech he pronounced the "enough" "The Chancellor drily remarked " " Mr. Clerk, in England we sound the pugh as uff— enufi, not enow." - " Vera well, my lord," said Clerk, "of this we have said enuff; and 1 come, my lord, to the of the land in dispute. It was apportioned, my lord, intowhat in "England would be called pluffl' land—a pluff land being as much land as 3. pltjffinan can plvffi'm one day."
The Chancellor was rather taken aback by the happy repartee, but soon recovered, himself, and said—- " Proceed, Mr. Clerk, I now know enow of Scotch to understand your argument'"
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 304, 26 December 1874, Page 3
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143"ENOUGH OF THAT." Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 304, 26 December 1874, Page 3
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