PURE SCOTCH
Reading edition
Andrew Carnegie, in the smoke-room of the Baltic, talked about Scotch whisky.
“It is a pure but a powerful spirit,” he said, smiling. “In Peebles the other day they told me a good story about it.
“It seems that a Peebles lawyer and his clerk had been to a wedding of the real, old-fashioned sort. On the way home the lawyer said, as they were crossing the famous Peebles iron bridge:
“‘Noo, Saunders, mon, I’ll juist gang on ahead a meenit, an’ ye’ll tell me if I’m walkin’ straucht.’
“So the lawyer walked ahead, and then called back:
“‘Straucht, Saunders?’
“‘Straucht’s a die,’ Saunders answered; ‘but—hic—wha’s that wi’ ye?’”