Highland Drover

A highland drover was returning from a cattle market in England, where he had to sell his cattle too cheaply, a circumstance that deepened his hereditary dislike to the English. When passing through Carlisle, he observed a public notice that 50 pounds would be given to any one who would officiate as executioner in the case of a criminal lying at the time under sentence of death.

He at once volunteered, got the rogue hanged, and pocketed his fee. As he moved off, he was hooted and heckled at by the crowd as a beggarly Scot, who for money had done what no Englishman had stooped to do.

“ Give me the same money for each,” cried the drover. with a grin, “and I’ll be glad to hang all of you.”

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