36/48 His natural tongue's kinder curious. Comes from the innards of Cape Breton, he does, where the farmers speak homemade Scotch. Cape Breton's full o' niggers whose folk run in there durin' aour war, an' they talk like farmers--all huffy-chuffy." "That is not Scotch," said "Pennsylvania." "That is Gaelic. So I read in a book." "Penn reads a heap. |