Hadn't Time to Think of Paint.
> "Lan Maclaren" recounted this story in , a lecture on Scottish humour : In a dull Scottish village on a dull morn1 ing, one neighbour called at another's house. He was met at the door by his friend's i wife, and the conversation which ensued was thus : — "Oauld?" — "Ay." "Gaun to be weety : | (rains'). I'm thinkin'." — "Ay." "Is John in?'*— "Ou. ay. he's in." "Can I see him?" — "Na."' "But I winted tae see him." — — "Ay, but ye >anna see him. John's ) deid." "Deid?"— "Ay.' Sudden?"— " Ay." "Verra sudden?" — "Ay, very sudden." j "Did he say onyrhing aboot a pot o' green i pent afore he deid?"
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Otago Witness, Issue 2661, 15 March 1905, Page 81
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111Hadn't Time to Think of Paint. Otago Witness, Issue 2661, 15 March 1905, Page 81
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