PLAIN JUSTICE.

New Zealand Tablet, 4 August 1921, Page 45

PLAIN JUSTICE.

A story illustrating the Scottish love of justice, which, if old, has had a sufficiently long rest to make it seem quite new, is related by one whose stock of anecdotes is said to be as inexhaustible as it is varied (says Ave Maria) : An old couple, who had never been in a railway train in all their lives before, took seats in one leaving Perth for Glasgow, for the purpose of visiting their son in the latter city. They became highly excited and interested at their rapid flight, and nothing would satisfy the old man but that at every station he must needs get out to gaze around in admiration and wonder, to the evident alarm and uneasiness of his guidwife Janet, who would not move fi om hei seat. The train at length moved off, leaving the old man on the station platform, gazing helplessly at the receding face of his wife. When she saw her guidman thus left behind, she reached her head out of the window, and, to the amusement of her fellow-travellers, exclaimed: “There, noo, Saunders! Ye’ve dune for yersel’ at last wi’ yer thrawness ! Weel, weel!” she continued, settling down in her seat, ‘Tin kinna glad o’t tae; for he’s aye been craikin a’ alang, * Jenny, haste ye here, an’ haste ye there: ye’ll be late for the kirk ’; or,', ‘ Ye’ll no hae the work dune.’ An’ noo he’s gane an’ got left himself’. Od I I’m glad ot. It’s a lesson lie’ll no forgot in a hurry. It’s plain joostice.”