An Insulted Scotchman

The following story heard at Killarney shows how dilïerentl y an Irishman and a Scotchman will take a joke. AnEnglishman who had been fishing in the lower lakes saidto his boatman: "An extraordinary thing happened to me some time ago. I lost a paiv of scissors out of my fishing book at the end of the lake. The next year I was fishing here again and hooked and killed a very large pike. I feit Bomething very hard inside him, so 1 opened him, and what do you think it was'f" "Begorra, your honor, I'd think it might be your scissors only for one thing." "What is that?" asked theother. "It?s only j ust this, your honor, that there never was a pike in any of the Killarney lakes since the world began." Afterward the same Englishman tried the same story on a gillie in Seotland. When he asked him, "What do you think was inside the pike?" the gillie replied: "Your scissors and nae guts; and the Duke of Argyle - and he's a far greater man than the king - would not have insulted me sae. I'll fish nae mare vi' ye." And off he Years of Irish Life."