Wha’s Like Us?
The average Englishman in the house he calls his castle, slips into his national costume – a shabby raincoat – patented by chemist Charles Macintosh from Glasgow, Scotland.
En route to his office he strides along the English lane, surfaced by John Macadam, of Ayr, Scotland.
He drives his car fitted with tyres invented by John Boyd Dunlop vetannary surgeon of Dreghorn , Scotland.
At the office he receives the mail bearing an adhesive stamp invented by John Chalmers, bookseller and printer of Dundee, Scotland.
During the day he uses the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland. At home in the evening his daughter pedals her bicycle invented by, Kirkpatrick Macmillan blacksmith of Thornhill, Dumfrieshire, Scotland.
He watches the news on t.v an invention of John Logie Baird, of Helensburgh, Scotland. And hears an item about the U.S Navy, founded by John Paul Jones, of Kirkbean, Scotland.
Nowhere can an Englishman escape the ingenuity of the Scots.
He has now been reminded too much of Scotland and in desperation he picks up the bible, only to find the first man mentioned in the good book is a Scot – King James vi – who authorised its translation.
He could take to drink but the Scots make the best in the world.
He could take a rifle and end it all but the breech loading rifle was invented by Captain Patrick Ferguson of Pitfour, Scotland.
If he escaped death, he could find himself on an operating table injected with penicillin, discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming of Darvel Scotland. And given chloroform, an anaesthetic discovered by Sir James Young Simpson, obstetrician and gynaecologist, of Bathgate, Scotland.
Out of the anaestetic he would find no comfort in learning he was as safe as the Bank of England founded by William Paterson of Dumfries, Scotland.
Perhaps his only remaining hope would be to get a transfusion of guid Scottish blood which would enable him to ask ----
“Wha’s Like Us”
From a postcard I got from Scotland