Max O'Rell - Friend Mac Donald

Scotchmen still drink hard; but where are the joyous days when the Scotch host broke the glasses off at the stem, so that his guests should drink nothing but bumpers?

Scotchmen still drink hard; but where are the good old times, when it was thought a slight to your host to go to bed without the help of a couple of servants?

Scotchmen still drink hard; but where is the time when people recommended a protégé , who was a candidate for a vacant post, by adding at the foot of his petition, "He is a trustworthy man – capable, hard-working, and a fine drinker"?

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I mean "the people." As for the higher classes, their manners and dress are perfectly English; they only differ in their political and religious opinions.

I trust to the intelligence of the reader to distinguish here between the well-bred Scot and his humbler brethren.