Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-07-02
The Migratory Scot.

Old Osborne said, ages since ''The
Scot. like the poor Swiss, finds more
commodious abiding under every climate
than at home" A story appeared in a
wcll-known serial, some several years
since, describing the disappointment of
an Englishrnau who went out to the East
as an interpreter, and whose ruling pas
sion was a hatred of everything Scotch
but strolling through the camp with a
Turkish officer, and abusing the Scotch
to his heart content, to his astonishment
Hassan Bey, the Turk, broke out 'Ill
tell We what, ma mon, gin We daur lowse
we're tongue upon my country like that
I'll gle We a cloot on the Ing that'll max
il tingle fra this till Halloween !" why,
nv good man, | thought you were
Turk y and sac / am a Turk
the moo, ma Draw chiel," said the
angry Glasgow Mussulman but my
fathers auld leather breeks ne'er travel
led farther than Just fra Glasgow to
Greenock and back again but when l
gang hame-as I'll do or it's lang if it be
Gods will-Tll Just be Wully Forbes,
son o auld Daddy Forbes, o the Gorbals,
for a that's come and game" Presently
a splendidly-dressed Hungarian came up
and said to the Turk, ''Wully, mon,
there's truce the moo for twa hours
Just come wi me and we'll hae glass o
whuskev thegiiNer" 1t Was the same
with a Russian officer, until the English
man exclaimed, BLESS my heart is
everybody on earth Scotchman ? Per
haps I'm one myself without knowing 1t ~
BIT when the Russian General Tarossoif
exclaimed, "Eh, Donald Cawmell are
We here?" and Ibrahim Pacha burst forth
simultaneously, "What, Sandy Robert
son, can this he you?' the Englishman
burst forth Its ali over Turks,
Russians, Hu8earians, Englisl-all
Scotchmen. It's more than can bear !,
shall go home there's nothing left for
me to do here. I came out as an inter
prefer, but if al the nations Of Europe
talk nothing but Scotch, what use can |
be?" This seems very droll, but not
more droll than real.
We believe it is Sir Archibald Alison
who mentions how, when Marshal Keith
was combating the Turkish forces under
the Grand Vizier, the two generals came
TO conference with each other the
Grand Vizier came mounted on q camel,
in all the poInp Of Eastern magnificence /;
the Scotch Marshal Keith, who originally
came from the neighborhood of Turiff, i'll
Aberdeenshire, approached on horseback.
After the conference the Turkish Grand
Vizier said to Keith that he would like to
speak few words in private to him, IN
his tent, and begged that no one should
accompany him. Marshal Keith accord
ingly went in, aud the moment they con-
ferred the Grand Vizier threw off his tur-
ban, tore off his beard, and running to
Marshal Keith, said, "Oh, Johnnie, foo s
a wi We man q and he then discovered
that the Grand Vizier of Turkey was a
school fellow of his own who had disap-
peared about thirty years before from a
parish school near Methlie
And We remember to have met with an
anccdote Of a Scotchman from Perth, who
had penetrated into some far interior of
Asia-we forget where he had to see the
Pacha, or Bashaw He was introduced
to the comely man in his tent They
gathered up their knees, and sat down
upon their carpets. They drank theiI
strong coffee, and smoked their hookahs
together in solemn silence few words, al
any rate, passed between them, but, We
may trust, sufficient for the occasion
but when the man of Perth was about t.
leave, the Pacha also arose, and following
him outside the tent, said, in strong Dorit
Scotch, Il kenncd We vera well in Perth
ye are Just sac and sac" The Perth man
was astonished, as well he might be, unit
the Pacha explained, as he said, "In
Just Perth man mysel' - He had trav
elled, and he had become Of Importance
to the government there His story wa
not very creditable- In the expectation
of the post he filed he had become
Mohammedan. n.-Lc;sure Hour.