Head Of The Table

The chief of the clan Macnab was at dinner in a Highland inn, where he expected to be asked to sit at the head of the table. The head of another clan, however, was also one of the company, and insisted on taking the chair. When some of those present began excitedly to assert the superior right of one or the other, Macnab took another seat, remarking, with cheerful pride,

“Gentlemen, sit down where you please. But wherever the Macnab sits, that’s the head of the table.”

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