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Show Unjustly Accused. Andrew Carnegie, at a dinner in New York, talked about the Scotch dialect "It's a hard lingo to understand," he said. "It often causes awkward mistakes. "Once an American divine spent Christmas in a Hilghland inn. On Christmas morning he gave the maid a tip of a sovereign, and he said, looking look-ing earnestly at her for she was a pretty maid: " 'Do you know, Kathleen, you are a very good looking lassie?' "Of course Kathleen was pleased, but, being modest, she blushed like a rose and answered: "'Ah, na; ah, na! But my kissin, sir, is beautiful'.' "The divine frowned. " "Leave the room, you wicked young baggage!' he said sternly. "He didn't know, you see, that modest mod-est Kathleen had been simply praising prais-ing in her Highland dialect the superior su-perior charms of her cousin Janet of Peebles." |