They've a wee cake there they call a doughnut--awfu' gude eating, though no quite sae gude as Mrs.Lauder's scones.

There's round hole in the middle of a doughnut, always.

And the Americans have a way of saying: "The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the hole." It's a wise crack, you, and it tells you a good deal, if you'll apply it.
There's another way we maun be thinking.

We've spent a deal of blood and siller in these last years.

We maun e'en have something to show for all we've spent.