Maybe they've reached the leemit now, but I hae ma doots--I'm never thinking a Yankee has reached a leemit, for I've ma doots that he has ane! I kenned fine that they'd heard o' me in America.

Wull Morris and others had told me that.

I knew that there'd be Scots there tae bid me welcome, for the sake of the old country.

Scots are clansmen, first and last; they make much of any chance to keep the memory and the spirit of Scotland fresh in a strange land, when they are far frae hame.

And so I thought, when I saw land, that I'd be having soon a bit reception frae some fellow Scots, and it was a bonny thing to think upon, sae far frae all I'd known all my life lang.
I was no prepared at a' for what really happened.