Not to be Gulled.
* A well-known professor of Edinburgh University touring in Annandale, Dumfriesshire, one day fell in with a small farmer of the district. Finding the latter an intelligent man, the professor proceeded to give him a graphic account of the various plants and animals whose fossilised remains had been found in the neighbourhood, and left him, as he thought, greatly edified. A few days later the professor paid a visit to a friend in the Bame district.
•'By-the-bye," said his host, "did you not meet a tenant of mine in your rambles the other day ?" " Yes," said the professor, " and a very intelligent man he seemed to be." " Ah ! " said the host ; " I asked him what he thought of you, and he replied • Oh, a verra nice man— verra nice man, but' (shaking his head gravely) •an awf u' Ue-dx ! '"
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Otago Witness, Issue 1851, 17 August 1893, Page 50
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142Not to be Gulled. Otago Witness, Issue 1851, 17 August 1893, Page 50
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