Daniel (uneasily). I'm sorry to say I haven't.
Mackenzie. And you call yourself an engineer and you don't know about Donal Mackenzie's patent reciprocating piston.
John (apologetically). You see we be a bit out of the world here, Mr. Mackenzie.
Daniel. Yes. Now that's one point. One great point that always tells against me. (Getting courageous.) It really needs a man to be continually visiting the great engineering centres—Greenock, London—
Mackenzie (scornfully). London's not an engineering centre—Glasgow, Hartlepool, Newcastle——
Daniel. Well, all those places. He could keep himself posted up in all the newest ideas then, and inventions.
Mackenzie. But a man can keep himself to the fore if he reads the technical journals and follows their articles. What technical papers do you get? Do you ever get the Scottish Engineers' Monthly Handbook, price sixpence monthly? I'm the writer on the inventors' column. My articles are signed Fergus McLachlan. Perhaps you've read them?
Daniel. I think—um—I'm not quite sure that I have.
Mackenzie. You remember one I wrote on the new compressed air drills last July?