Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1898 — Assumption Corrected. [ARTICLE]

Assumption Corrected.

The traveling American must expect to be “taken down” occasionally in the Old World, when his love for his own country leads him, after the manner of all patriotic travelers, to vaunt It a little. An amusing instance of this kind is related by a correspondent of the New York Evening Post, writing of a vlsl4 to Greyfriars’ churchyard at Edinburgh. The sexton was a man of Aberdeenshire, and took pleasure In showing the visitor the grave of Duncan Ban Maclntyre, a Gaelic poet, and'ln interpreting the Gaelic inscription on it, as if it were the chief glory of his charge. His heart was in the Highlands, plainly. The visitor had been at Greyfriars’ before, and said to the sexton, as the old man pocketed his fee: “I have seen your Highlands since I was here last.” “Oh!” said he, with inimitable Highland inflection. “And had ye never bene there before?” “No. I have never been in Scotland before. I live in America.” “Oh! ’Tis a graund country that.” “America? It is, indeed!” The old man looked up in utter surprise. “Nay, nay,” he said, impatiently, “the Hielands! A graund country!”