NOT TO BE BEATEN.
A public dinner in Edinburgh had dwindled away to two gua«3ts, an Englishman and a Highlander, who were each trying to prove the superiority of their native countries. Of course, at an argument of this kind, a Scotchman possesses, from constant practice, overwhelming advantages. The Highlander's logic was so good that he beat his opponent on every point.
At last the Englishman put a poser “You wilt,” ho said, “at least admit that England is larger in extent than Scotland ?”
“Certainly not,” was tho confident reply. “You see, sir, ours is a mountainous, yours a flat country. Now, if all our hills were rolled qut flat we should beat you by hundreds of square miles !”
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Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 47, 13 July 1908, Page 7
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119NOT TO BE BEATEN. Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 47, 13 July 1908, Page 7
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