Oh the shame! Old Scotia’s Grandeur and Erin’s Pride besmirched! How could I sink so low as to be influenced by a mere purrvincial rag? (Apologies to ST, put it down to too much liqueur and feline hyperbole).
There I was enjoying a private quaff, as I thought, and all the while the pussaratzi were bent [...]

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Fearfu’ o’ yer sonsie face
There’s yins agin yer puddin’ race
But Charley Barley’s on yer case
He’ll raise yer swank
Abune them a’ wi guile an’ grace
A guinea’s rank!
 
Is there in a’ Amerikay
The like o’ you upon this day?
My rantin roarin’ gaze I’ll lay
On thy blyde face
And tho’ some plans gang aft aglay
Thou’re fu’ o’ grace.
 
Great is thy [...]

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