The comical stories of Thrummy Cap and the Ghaist (NLS104185773)/Blind Fou
BLIND FOU.
The late Reverend Mr C...... of D......, in Aberdeenshire, being summoned before his presbytery, for tippling, one of his elders, the constant participator of his orgies, was summoned to appear as a witness against him. ‘Weel, John,’ said a member of the reverend court, ‘did you ever see Mr C...... the worse of drink?’ ‘Weel I wat, no,’ answered John; I’ve mony time seen him the better o’t, but never seen him the waur o’t.’ ‘But did you never see him drunk? ‘That’s what I’ll never see,’ replied the elder; ‘for lang before he’s half slokened, I’m aye blind fou.’
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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