Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1894 — Mostly a Native. [ARTICLE]

Mostly a Native.

“Are you a native of this parish?” asked a Scotch Sheriff of a witness who was summoned to testify in a case of illicit distilling. “Maistiy, yer honor,” was the reply. “I mean were you born in the parish?” “Na. I wasna born in this parish, hut I’m maist a native for a’ that.” “You came here when you were a child, I suppose you mean?” said the Sheriff. “Na, sir, I’m here about sax years noo. ” “Then how do you come to be nearly a native of the parish?” “Weel, ye see, when I cam here sax years sin’ I jist weighed eight stane, an’ I’m seeventeen stane doo, sae ye see that about nine stane o’ me belongs to' this parish an’ the ither eight comes from Camlockie. ”