You're always the better of a witness.' 'That is so,' he said, brightening.

'Ach, these are the bad times! in old days there wass nothing to do but watch the doors at the flower-shows and keep the yachts from poaching the sea-trout.

But now it is spies, spies, and "Donald, get out of your bed, and go off twenty mile to find a German." I wass wishing the war wass by, and the Germans all dead.' 'Hear, hear!' I cried, and on the strength of it gave him another dram.
I accompanied him to the road, and saw him mount his bicycle and zig-zag like a snipe down the hill towards Achranich.

Then I set off briskly northward.

It was clear that the faster I moved the better.
As I went I paid disgusted tribute to the efficiency of the Scottish police.