An argument as to the origin of bagpipes had waxed loud and long between a Scotsman and an Irishman, each of whom claimed that his own.country had produced! the instrument. Finally _ the Irishman clinched matters by remarking: "Well, the truth is, the Irish invinted the poipes, and they made a prisent of them to the Scots, and the Scots haven't ®Bsn the joke yefcfP
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Evening Star, Issue 17924, 21 March 1922, Page 3
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