"Wha—can it be ye never heard tell o' bonnie Scotland?" gasped the highlander, who was nearing the condition which Idler had described as a "medicinal spree."
"What is it, a man or a place? Did you ever meet the name before, fellows?"
All three solemnly shook their heads, whereat the Caledonian's jaw dropped in amazement.
"Wull, wull, I knew 'twas a most barbarous country I entered, but I'd thought the least enlightened peoples of the airth had heard of the glory and the celebrity of bonnie Scotland."
"Bonnie Scotland? Is Bonnie his first name?"
"Why, 'tis the country o' Scotland, I mean."
"Oh, I know," interposed Harry; "that little, barren, outlying province somewhere to the north of England."
"Oh, that!" cried the others, in contemptuous chorus.
"Where the coast line gets ragged, like an old beggar's coat," said Idler.
"And the people live on haggis and finnan haddie," added Kennedy.