I'd fain be talkin' a wee bit wi' ye aboot it first.
There's aye ither things they're fond o' saying aboot a Scot.

Oh, aye, I've heard folk say that there was but the ane way to mak' a Scot see a joke, an' that was to bore a hole in his head first.

They're sayin' the Scots are a folk wi'oot a sense o' humor.

It may be so, but ye'll no be makin' me think so--not after all these years when they've been laughin' at me.

Conceited, is that?
Weel, ha' it yer ane way.
We Scots ha' aye lived in a bonny land, but a land that made us work hard for what it gie'd us.