DIDN'T TALK SHOP.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 189, 12 April 1902, Page 3

DIDN'T TALK SHOP.

“ Very interesting scenery, sir,” said a loudly dressed Cockney to a grim looking Scot on board the Loch Katrine steamer. 11 I’m pleased ye think sae,” answered Sawney. “ Replete with ’istorical hassocia iions.”

“ Maybe, but I dinna ken onything aboot them.”

“ What ! ” exclaimed the Englishman. ‘‘ Surely Sir. you ’ave read the works of your great countryman, Sir Walter Scott, the ‘‘Wizard of the North,’ ” “ Sir Waller Scott. Wha was he ? ’

“ Sir, this is perfectly hincredible. You a Scotchman and never ieard of the man who wrote the Waverly novels, ‘ Mannion,’ the ‘ Lady of the Lake,’ and all that sort of thing ! ”

The Soot onlv shook his head

The disgusted Cockney turned away with an expression of contempt for such gross ignorance, and an individual who had overheard the conversation, blushing for his uninformed copi patriot, took the opportunity of Asking whether his confession was really true.

“ Toot, man,” was the testy reply “ I didna want to hear ony o’ that English idiot’s bletherin’. Heard o’ Watty Scott ! For the last twelve months I’ve had enough of Sir Walter Scott, and his novels too. I’m a printer’s leader, and our firm has been printin’ a new edition o' his works. I'm on my holidays, man, and canna be bothered aboot talkin' shop.”