Are You Scottish ?

“Thomson! you must be a Scotsman, I’ll warrant ?“
said Wilkie to Henry Thomson, as they sat together
for the first time at the Academy dinner.

“I’m of that ilk, sir,” was the reply; “my father was a Scotsman.”

“Was he, really?” exclaimed Wilkie, grasping the other’s band quite brotherly.

“And my mother was Irish.”

“Was she really?” and the hand relaxed its fervour.

“And I was born in England.”

Wilkie let go Thomson’s hand altogether, turned his back on him, and indulged in no further conversation.

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