Many people have jong suspected that the jokes about the Scot's fondness for a drink were invenied by the Englishmen to cover their-own failings) This impression would seem to be confirmed by statistics of drink consumption im 1922 as calculated by Mr. G. B. Wilson, of the Uniied Kingdom Alliance. According to the figures, the amount spent in drink in Scot land last year works out at £6-11s. per head. compared (with £7-l5s. per head in England and Wales. This comparison shows up the Scot in quite a good fight, which becomes even better when it is considered that the prevalence of beer drinking in England and the high price of whisky in Scotland means that, even if the expenditure on liquor in each country were equal, the Englishman. gets far mord dank for his money than the Scot
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