When we moved to Scotland we assumed most Scottish people knew the words for“Auld Lang Syne”and knew when the traditional time was to cross their arms. However, we have been proved wrong on this on many occasions. So we just go with the flow. “Auld Lang Syne” has often been referr...
when work was over, he taught them arithmetic; he borrowed books for them on history, science, and theology; and he felt it his duty to supplement this last — the trait is laughably Scottish — by a dialogue of his own composition, where his own private shade of orthodoxy was exactly ...