Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — One Way of Finding a Scotsman. [ARTICLE]

One Way of Finding a Scotsman.

It is related of a successful Glasgow merchant that, sight seeing in Paris once, he lost his way. For a considerable time he wandered about trying to get back to his hotel. The hours went by. He never could speak French, and his Glasgow English only brought a §mile and a shake of the head. “Oh for a body wi’ a guid Scotch tongue in his head!” he sighed. Then came a happy thought. By signs he bought a basket, measure and berries of a trim Frenchwoman, and, shouldering his stock, went along the street shouting: “Fine grossets, a bawbee the pine; fine grossets, a bawbee the pine.” The crowd laughed at the mad Briton, but the familiar cry soon brought some Scotsmen on the scene, and the merchant was able to retire from business and smoke his pipe in the bosom of his family, thankfnl that he had found real Scotsmen in his hour of need.—Tit-Bits.