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Show Shortly after the introduction of the electric telegraph into Scotland, a West Highlander, who had been to Glasgow, and was, consequently, supposed sup-posed to have got to the bottom of all mysteries, was asked to explain it. "Weel,' said he, "it's no easy to explain what you will no be understandin'. But I'll tell ye what it's like. If you could stretch my collie dog frae Oban to Tobermory, an' if you wass to clap its head in Oban, an' it waggit its tail in Tobermory, or if I wass to tread on its tail in Tobermory an' it squaked in Oban that's what the telegraph is like." ' |