Fully Warned.
A certain Scottish collector of bridge dues on the Border was quite a character in his way. Upon one occasion a large party of American clergymen, who were visiting the Pan-Presbyterian Congress in Scotland, came to survey the classic Borderland. The end of the bridge bears a notice that not more than ten people are allowed on it at once. But the clerics chose to disregard this, and went on in a body. The collector saw them from his little sentry- box and rushed out. "Back off that bridge!" he shouted, -with a gesture worthy of a warden of the marches. But, unused to such tones, the clergyman pressed on. "Back off that bridge!" shouted the collector again. "But, my good man," expostulated the foremost, "do you know that we are members of the Pan-Presbyterian Congress?" "Ye may call yourselves Pan-Presbyterian or pot-Presbyterian," roared the collector, "but if yo no gang aff that bridge ye'll be a' Baptists in two, meenits."
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Otago Witness, Issue 3030, 10 April 1912, Page 82
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163Fully Warned. Otago Witness, Issue 3030, 10 April 1912, Page 82
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