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NZ Truth, Issue 602, 30 December 1916, Page 5

A couple of Dour Toun Scot* had been ai Featherston visiting their boys now In camp, after which they took tho train for Mastertou. They forgot th*vt Ma»tc»rton w&» und<>r th» "ban," and it was a very hot day and they wero very dry. On arriving, th«y set I out to look for the familiar legend that the young Scot learns oven before h« tackle the shorter catechism, but aueh «l«na nro ally now Jn Maaterton, At ln*t. afier a weary trudge rouml the lown, the well-known words, "Scotch whiskies." caught their well-nklnnod optics. They approached the door with hurrying fflfci. U wa* locked: ibr» Ucenneo having Uopnrtecl when Droppcrvlllu turned lh?> trado down. f?AiJily »hot a l«aU *it <li«may at Alkk, which wns wympaUicticaUy returned. Then the pawky ona looked up languidly, and v«ry dryly remarked: "Ay, Alick, an the Scripturan «ay. 'All sign* tknW fail m the (Imo of drouscht,' Co<U'i wurrd itlll tuuni tht iMtl"