The Scots were oot-- oh, aye, and they had pipers to greet me, and there were auld friends that had settled doon in New York or other parts o' the United States, and had come to meet me.

Scots ha' a way o' makin' siller when they get awa' frae Scotland, I'm findin' oot.

At hame the competition is fierce, sae there are some puir Scots.

But when they gang away they've had such training that no ithers can stand against them, and sae the Scot in a foreign place is like to be amang the leaders.
But it wasna only the Scots turned oot to meet me.

There were any number of Americans.