(Mr. Asquith's Speech, Tuesday, October 17.)
THE SAX SCOTCH PIPERS.
["The present Government is eminently a Scottish Government. You must remember that there are in the present Cabinet no less than five Scotch members of the House of Commons ... and we have also a member of the House of Lords who is one of the most eminent Scotchmen—I mean Lord Rosebery."—Mr. Asquith in Glasgow.]
"A Sassenach chief may be bonily built,
He may purchase a sporran, a bonnet, a kilt;
Stick a skeän in his hose—wear an acre of stripes—
But he cannot assume an affection for pipes."
—Bab Ballads.