CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE. A correspondent writes to the Star: “When visiting Killin, Perth, lately, I asked a shopkeeper the price of grouse hanging in the shop window as I wanted to send them ta London. “He replied, ‘4s a brace.’ ” “I said that I would call back later as I had no money with me. ‘The shop will be closed in half an hour,’ he said, ‘for it’s early closing, but we’ll no’ quarrel over a brace of grouse. You choose the birds.’
“I did, and he packed them. “ ‘lf you go straight across to the post office,’ he said, ‘you’ll just catch the mail.’
“ ‘But I have no money!’ I protested. He went to his till, took out 2s, and handed it to me—an utter stranger.
“And yet they still say the Scots are mean!”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 59, Issue 4184, 11 September 1939, Page 8
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