The Scot’s “Luggage”

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 67, 21 March 1935, Page 3

The Scot’s “Luggage”

Some o.l! the old Scotch ministers were characters. One, the Rev, William M'cGroauach, who had a "charge” iu the Jar west, went to take Sunday duty at Moy. Arriving on the Saturday, he was uict at the station by the Mackintosh, one of Scotland's famous chieftains, and invited to Moy Hall for the night. Red Williams, as ho was called, accepted. “And your luggage, Mr. McGroanach ?" asked the Mackintosh. “In ma overcoat pockets. I only carry a nightshirt and a toothbrush.” At tea he mot tho lady of thy house. Afterwards, in Ecd William’s own words, "she said I must be tired, and asked the butler to show mo to ma room. It was a grand room, but none the less I thought these folks were queer. It >vas only six o’clock, and o’er early to go to bed. But in Rome ye must do as Rome does, so I put on my nightshirt, go into bed, and went to sleep. I was wakened by a great noise. Some instrument of brass was being beaten with a hammer. I rushed out of my room, along the corridor, and stood on the landing in my nightshirt. There I saw half-naked wecmeit hurrying down the stairs. I knew what had happened, and at the top of ma voisc T shouted, ‘Flee for your lives, people, the hoose is on fire!’ ”