Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1914 — Content to Remain in Scotland. [ARTICLE]

Content to Remain in Scotland.

An extremely self-important middle* class Londoner, visiting Scotland for the first time in his life, volunteered to a kindly but sharp old Highlander that no Englishman could ever find Scotland anything but a place to leave —and that rapidly. . , “I’m nae so sure o’ that,” returned the old man, dryly. “I’ll tak’ ye to aplace ho* far frea Stirling, whanr thetty thousand o’ yer countrymen ha* been content for five hundred year, and they’re nae thocht o’ leavin’ yet!** “What is the place?” bellowed the Londoner. “Bannockburn!” snapped the Scot, waving his hand in the direction of the battlefield. ‘