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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3509, 22 June 1920, Page 2

oir \» imam Birdwood .in>.s a penchant for good stories which he narrates in :i way thai Ms the gift of the chosen. Speaking'at Invcrcargill (.says the Times) he was dealing with things Scottish at the civic reception, and an anecdote he told, although against, the oft-maligned son of Scotia, will probably be enjoyed by him as much as by his English neighbour. A Scottish sergeant, said Sir William, was sent to hospital badly wounded. On coming out of the anaesthetic he found that one of his legs had been amputated. .His language was' lurid and his demand thai his leg should be given back to him insistent. "Gie me back ni' leg. gie nie back m' leg,*'he ordered, and entreated in turn. At, last, in desperation, he exclaimed: "Gie me it back, I tell' ye. there were two ten franc notes in the sock." (Laughter). Those Scots in, the crowd, who had not recently visited the Homeland, continued Sir William, would be pleased to know that the people had not lost their national characteristics.

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