“Are you a native of this parish ?” asked a Sheriff to a witness who was summoned to testify in a case of. illict distilling. “ Maistly, yer honour,” was the reply. “I mean, were you born in this parish ?” Xa, yer honour. I wasna born in this parish ; but I’m maist a native for a’ that.” “ You came here when you were a child, I suppose you mean P” said the Sheriff. “Ha, sir ; I’m jist here about sax year noo.” “ Then how do you come to be nearly a native of the parish P” “Weel, ye see, whan I ca’m hero, about sax year syne, I jist weighed eight stane, an’ I’m 17 stane noo, sae ye see that about nine stane of me belongs to this parish, an’ the other eight comes frae Camlachie.”
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 16, 15 July 1893, Page 10
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135Untitled Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 16, 15 July 1893, Page 10
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