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...individualism, the Black Watch had small respect for top-brass rulings that offended their habits and sense of custom. "Halt, wha's that?" snapped a sentry one night. "Come, come," said the approaching officer, "that's no way to challenge. Ask me the password." "This is nae time for your bloody kiddin'," snapped the sentry. "Whit's your bloody name...
...night-and managed at the same time to pen his first, instantly successful literary works: Sketches by Boz and The Pickwick Papers. He gave up journalism after he married Catherine Hogarth, an unambitious, lethargic Scot, who once remarked of the Garden of Eden: "Eh, mon, it would be nae temptation to me to gae rinning about a gairden stark naked ating green apples...
...Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain: St. Swithin's Day, if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain nae mair. Last week, 1,083 years after St. Swithin's death,* the ancient verse was quoted again. On many Americans rain had fallen on St. Swithin's Day (July 15) and most of the time since...
...Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain For forty days it will remain. St. Swithin's Day, if thou be fair. For forty days 'twill rain nae mair...
Words, however, could not conjure away the rotting carcass on the beach at Querqueville. Perhaps, someone suggested, it was the Loch Ness monster (TIME, Jan. 15) sighted last December in Inverness Harbor heading out to sea. But on that subject Professor Corbiere was firm. "Non!" he cried. "Nae!" echoed a thousand voices from Scotland, where six workmen promptly reported having seen the monster thrashing through Loch Ness "at a terrific rate...