Joking apart, Mr. Sutherland, how come you to "be so suspicious? We are never suspicious. If by any mischance we were to see a drunken mail coming out of the Queensferry (and you know accidents will happen at even the best regulated public houses) we shouldn't suspect you of having served him with liquor. "No," we should say, " Sutherland never does that. He always sternly refuses to sell "nips" to men who are not as sober as Resident Magistrates." Now don't you think one good turn deserves another, and aren't you sorry to have refused to cash that cheque? Yes, of course you are, and anxious to shake hands. Well, we won't baulk you old boy, there (metaphorically speaking) is the editorial paw, and (just a word more) — don't do it again !
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Observer, Volume 2, Issue 36, 21 May 1881, Page 385
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