Bannockburn
!

The
following remark upon Bannnckburn was made to a haughty Englishman
who had said to an old Scottish clergyman that no man of taste
conld think of remaining any time in such a country as Scotland:
”
Tastes differ. I'll take you to place not far from Stirling where
thirty thousand of your countrymen have been for five hundred
years, and they haven't thought of leaving yet.”
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