POTHOOKS AND HANGERS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 107, 12 November 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

POTHOOKS AND HANGERS.

A kilted rgiment, while on the march through a part of Scotland, halted lor a Sunday's rest at one of the remote villages in the Highlands, where tsome of the braw laddies were billeted on the inhabitants. One old lady had to hnd a lodging tor two of the soldiers, Sandy and lain, and she was delighted to know they were going to the kirk in the evening, ehe nerself being unable to go. her pleasure was increased when one of her guests, who happened to be an accomplished shorthand writer, promised to tell her all the minister said in his sermon, though she had her doubts as to how he would be able to remember it all.

Sandy and T.nu '.nine back from church and the former read the sermon out from his note book, to the admiration and astonishment of lor, landladv, who hud never heard of shorthand and had no idea, how anyone could write ;is fast as the minister spoke.. When Sandy had finished and the good lady had expressed .net thanks for the privilege ot hearing the sermon, she asked him to let her look at the book he had been reading from. She seemed much disappointed, howover, because she could make nothing of it. At length, after a close inspection of the mystic signs, she said to the blushing warrior, "Ye're a grand laddie and a verra gude reader, but I must tell ye, and if I was your ain mit-her I wad hae to admit it, ye're the verra wurrst writer 1 ever came across."