THE CHINAMAN AND THE SCOT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 13 July 1912, Page 10

THE CHINAMAN AND THE SCOT

| A story which comes all the way from Australia suggests to an Edinburgh contemporary that the national characteristics of the north do not receive due consideration in some parts of the world. A Britisher called at a lonely farm, and after receiving a meal from the comely woman who evidently ruled the household, he asked if she was married. "Why, yes, I am,' she replied proudly. "You'll find mv husband working m the garden if you want a chat with him." The stranger sought the alleged garden, but there was no °"® to X seen Imt a bent old Asiatic. there s only a Chinaman outside," he sam to the woman. "Surely he isn't your husoand?" "And why not?" she j demanded. "The woman at the next j farm married a Scotsman!"