SCOTCH MIST.
TO THR KDITOK. Sir,— Apropos of the observation recorded in to-night's ' Star ' of a lady of Greenock, recently arrived in Dunedin, where she finds the persistent Scotch mist of the closing week solacefully reminiscent of-her native town, permit me to retail an anecdote received from my father many decades ago. A traveller, after a series of visits to Greenock in which he found climatic conditions monotonously moist, addressed himself to a native youth: " Is it always raining here, my lad?" " Na," came the naive reply in the vernacular; " it sometimes siiaws."— I am, etc., P.H.G. April 13.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19460415.2.128.5
Bibliographic details
Evening Star, Issue 25768, 15 April 1946, Page 7
Word Count
99SCOTCH MIST. Evening Star, Issue 25768, 15 April 1946, Page 7
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in