THE SCOT ABROAD.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 36, 9 February 1884, Page 5

THE SCOT ABROAD.

An Englishman nho wont to the East, and whose i ul ing 1 pa^ion was an hatred of overylhiug Scotch, w.is sti oiling through lIk 1 c.mip with a Tuikish officer, and flinging- the Scotch t> his heart's content, when to his astonishment, ILi— .111 J>.i\, the Turk, broke ouf — (> Til tell )e wi:at, ma nion, gin ye d;iur louse \er tongue upon ma count ry like that, I'll gie ye a eloot on the lug th.'if'll mak' it tingle fia this till Hallowe'en." The thunderstruck Englishman stamnieied out, "Why, my good niaj, 1 thought you were a Turk." '• And sac 1 am a Turk the noo, ma In aw chiel," said the angry Glasgow Mussulman, '' hut ma father's auhl leather bicek.s ne'er travelled farther than just frae Glasgow to Greenock and back again ; but when J gang liamc — as I'll do or it^ Ling, if it be God's will —I'll just bo Willy Forbes o' the (Jorbal.s, tor a' that's come and gane." Presently a splendidly dies^ed Ilun!>.m tv ciune uji and paid to the Turk, u Wully, mon, there's a truce the noon for twa hours; just come wi me, and we'll hae a glass o' whusky ihegither." It was the same with a liiisbian officer, uutjl th<' Englisiimaii excLiimeil, ''lile.s.s my he.irt ! is everybody on earl h (Scotch 7 Perhaps I'm one myself without knowing it " But when the Rus^im General Tara.sof exclaimed, •' Eli, Donald Cawmcll, are you here?'' and Ibrahim Pasha burst forth himult.iueon.slyj " What S.,ndy Koberthou, can lli s be you?" the Knglisbmau burst forth, " It's all o\Qv. Turks, Hungarians. Russians, Egyptians — .ill Scotchmen. It's more than 1 cai) bear. I shall -go homo; there's nothing leit for me to do here. I came as an interpreter, but if all the nations of liurope. talk nothing- but Scotch what use can 1 be?"

A Long lJrunch hold clerk lias nm<io lnuiscli" i.imonß ami popular by kishin^ b.ilfius (a^u 110 L liuiit.jd), <uml h,is i-oceivcd many i'.ivnur.ible couiments iVoni adiuiriu>: |i.iicnt-<. Hiv-.lii'ul follow ; lml>i -s aro well v-uuiiyh, lliuuijb, l,u coiumencu i>u.