SCOT AND DUTCHMAN.
A little Scots seaman, who stood in the Central Sydney Police Court last week, charged with assault, looked plainly ill at ease. He had drifted ashore on the previous night; and had had barely time to wipe his mouth with the back of his hand after coming from 'an hotel when his gaze fell on a strange craft, quietly moored close by. It did not take his practical eye long to fix the stranger’s rig. It was Dutch. Whether his Gaelic blood was stirred with the thoughts of the days when Von Tromp swaggered on the seas or not the Court was not informed. At any rate, the Scot threw a shot across the Dutchman’s bows by ascribing to him a parentage far from illustrious. He then closed in, and hulled the foreigner twice; when hostilities were suspended by the intervention of the arm of the law. Fortunately both parties could speak English sufficiently well to enable the Court to dispense with the services of an interpreter, and the Scotsman was ordered to pay two pounds. “Two poonds 1 two poonds! a poon a poonch! Eh, but it’s ower muckle,” said the Scot, as he shook his head reproachfully at the Dutchman.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 90, 29 March 1911, Page 3
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