One Way Out 



suppose Beau Brummels serve some 

 useful purpose. Maybe lap dogs do 

 also. I never quite got the great idea 

 myself, but let us "judge not." There 

 can be absolutely no disputing over 

 matters involving either taste or re- 

 ligion. We all like the bright lights 

 sometimes, but one can find better 

 companions occasionally in the sand 

 dunes. Luckily for Scotland and the 

 human race, Robert Burns had a 

 greater fondness for a furrow in the 

 field, and for the bonnie banks of Ayr, 

 than for Leicester Square. Feast and 

 the world feasts with you. Think and 

 you think alone. 



Scotland has perhaps given the world 

 more in proportion to its area, and in 

 proportion to its habitable acreage, 

 than any other country. We can for- 

 give oatmeal, Carlyle and Rob Roy 

 Macgregor in the light of Burns and 

 Barclay of Ury, Scott and Amos 

 Cruickshank, Robert Louis Stevenson 

 and William McCombie. The Scotch 

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