New-York tribune., 1880-06-13
TIE MIGRATORY SCOT.
r,.nn, The Ll,s,lre Hn,ir.


Old Osborne said. ages sircc: The Scot, like TIE
poor SWISS finds more cOmmodiOus abiding under
every climate than at home" story appeared in
a wcll-known serial, some several years since. de-
scribing the disappointment OF an EnglIShman who
went out TO- the East as an interprelcI' ana Whose
ruling passion was hatred OF everything Scotch /;
but strollng through the camp with q Turkish
officer and abusing the Scotch to his hearts con-
to hrds his %stG9Shmfpt Hai'"R We By yTbda ae
ma mon, gin We daur lowe yerc tongue
upon my country like that, III gic ye coot on the
lug tha'll max it tingle fra this till llallowGc
The tbunderstruck Engllshmen stammered out,
why my good man, thought yon were Inrk !!
"And sac am q Turk the moo, ma Draw cmel," SAID
the angry Glasgow Mrssulman; but my fathers
amid leather breeks meier travelled farther than just
fra Glasgow to Greenock and back again but when
gang hame-as I'll do or it's Lang, If it be Gods
wiIl-Pll Just be Wully Forbes. son o nuld Daddy
Forbes. o the Gorbals. for a that's come ana ganr!
Presently a acknowledgement Hungarian came up
and SAID to the Turk "Wnlly, mon there's a truce
the moo for twa hours just come WI Inc and we'll
hae glass O. whu.ky thcgither;" It was the samo
with Russian officer, until the Engiishman ex-
claimed. BLESS my heartl IS everybody on eartn
ScotchmanI Perhaps Im one myself without know
ING itp But when the Russian General Iarassoh
exclaimed Ell. Donald Cawmell are yo here !"
"What. Sandy Robertson can this be your the
Englisbman burst forth: RS All over Turks,
Russians, Hungarians, EngliSh-all Scotcnmcn. It,s
more than can bear 1 shall 90 home; there's
nothing left for me to do here. came out as an IN
terprcter, but If all the nations OF Europe taik not
ing but Scotch, what use can l DC ~ IhlS sechiS
We believe IT is Sir Archibald Alison who men
tions how, when Marshal Keith was combating the
Turkish forces under the Grand VlzieT the two
generals came to q conference with eaGh otheT thc
Grand Vizier came mounted on a camel, III all the
pomp of Eastern maVniiicence; the Scotch Marshal
Keith vino originally came from the neighbOrhOOd
of Turiff, in AbeIdeenshTe approached on horse,
bock. After the conference the Turkish Grand
Vlzler said to Keith that he would IKE TO speak
few words in private to him, in his tent, and begged
that no one should accompany him. MARSHAL helth
accordingly went III, and the moment they confer.
red the Grand Vizer threw OIL hi turban, tore on
his beard and running to Marshal Keith, SAID, Oh,
Johnnle foo's n WI yc man ~ and lie then dlscoy-
cred that the Grand VIZer Of1urkey was school
fellow Of his own who had disappeared about thirty
wears before from parish school near MethIo
And we remember to have met with an ahecd0to
of a Scotchman from Perth, who had penetrated
into some far interior Of ASia-we forget where;
he had to SEQ the Pacha, or BaShaw. lie was IN
troduced to the cOmely man III his tent lheY
0atbpred I'D their knees, and sat down upon their
carnets They drank their strong coffee, and
smoked their hOOkahs together in solemn silence;
Jew words, at any rate, passed between them, put,
we NAV trust sufficient for the occasion; but when
the man of Perth about to leave the Pacha also
arose and following him outside tho tent, sald. III
strong DOrlc Scotch, 81 kenned ye vera well IN
Perth: We are Just sac and sac" The Perth man
was astopished as we'll he might beuntil the Pacha
exnIained. as he sad " Pm just a Perth man
mvsePw He had travelled, and he had become OF
importance to the Government there. His story was
not very credtabe. In the expectation OF the post
he filled he had become MOhammedan