The book of the hour here in Scotland "From Workshop to War Cabinet 5 George one of the members of for Glasgow. George I born in Dundee, where h i father. a Yorkshireman, had come in the employment of a firm of engineers from Darlington. But his father was of migratory habits, and change brought no rest to his feet. "That is the reason', writes Mr. Barnes, "why, although I like to regard myself as a Scotsman, as a matter of fact I spent most of my young days on the southern side of the Border." He very early came to the con-conclusion, he informs us, that London was the best place on earth. However, in 1872, his parents again struck their tents, and he found himself once more in Dundee, where he served his apprenticeship at Parker's Foundry. The following contrast which he makes between the English and Scottish characters has therefore a special interest. "The true born Londoner". he writes, "is the nearest approach I know to the born gentleman. He may be stupid and sometimes garrulous. He may appear to be servile, but it is the faithful and_philosophie subser-vince of a Sancho Panza and not the mealy-mouthed cringiness of a Uriah Heap. Provincials regard him sometimes as very cute and unscrupulous. They are advised on coming to London to keep their hands in their pockets and never to go out after dark, and then, on getting to London, they find that as a rule the crooks are from the country. As compared with the Londoner, the Scotch—or, at all events, the East Coast Scotch—I found to be primitively aggressive. It has been said that the Scotch consist of but two categories, the very good and the very bad—1 used to lodge with a sailor man in Southampton who expressed it in gory language—and think there is an element of truth in the ug. Some of the best folk have met in this so-called vale of tears have beer Scotch, but. some of the other kind we be found among my fellow-apprenties at Par Fe in Dundee, where T spent of my life. Tchad a rou to. ga through till T s fit to take my own part, wilh effect, and on approved methods."
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