Worse Than The Rack
INE of Punch’s editors confessed Many yeafs ago that his best stories about Scotsmen were usually conceived and put into circulation by the Scots themselves, and this no doubt accounts for their almost invariable accuracy in portraying Scottish life and character. I can recollect only one occasion where he went
astray; it was one of a series of humorous drawings entitled: "Scenes from our Rough Island Story." This one was entitled"Beyond the Wall of Hadrian: Ancient Scots Torturing a Roman Prisoner of War." A Roman centurion was shown, tied securely to a tree, while eight stalwart Highlanders paraded around him in a circle, with their pipes going
full blast. The inference was that they were all playing different tunes! Punch forgot that, to a Roman centurion, the music of the pipes in a foreign land was better than a letter from home. It was the. Romans who brought the pipes to Britain -("Punch’s Scottish Humour." A. J. Sinclair, 1ZM, November 23.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 128, 5 December 1941, Page 5
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165Worse Than The Rack New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 128, 5 December 1941, Page 5
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