A Grascow child absolutely refuses to learn history. On history days he stays away from School History makes him sick. Otherwise he is a very good, clever boy indeed.
Than up spoke the chid fra' Glesca, In accents fu' o' plain, Ye can take your history lessons, "And drop them doon the drain."
This behaviour seems to be the effect on a sensitive nature of history in the making. He has some every day, and does not want more than is inevitable.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.