IN SCOTTISH DIALECT.
An elderly Scotchman had been convicted of drunkenness and "sentenced to fourteen days. The warder hajided him a bucket of water in his cell next morning with the remark : "That's to dean your cell." WKat was bis astonishment to find Sandy, who had divested himseli of hi« clothing, having a bath. "(3ood gracious !" e.\el rum-id the wardor. "What, are you doing?" "Why," ituux-eutly -iskcd Sandy, "didn't ye say ii was t-> elf an inii iwf" '.' "
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2008, 1 October 1906, Page 7
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78IN SCOTTISH DIALECT. Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2008, 1 October 1906, Page 7
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