An Englishman
is being shown around a Scottish Hospital.
At the end of
his visit, he is shown into a ward with a number of patients
who show no
obvious
signs of physical injury.
He goes to
examine
the first man he sees, and the man proclaims:
"Fair fa' yer
sonsie face, Great chieftan o' the pudding race!
Aboon them a'
ye tak your place, painch tripe or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy
o' grace as lang's my arm."
The
Englishman,
somewhat taken a back, goes to the next patient,
who immediately
launches into:
"Some hae meat,
and canna eat, and some wad eat that want it,
bit we hae meat
and we can eat, and sae the Lord be thank it."
And suddenly
the
next patient sits up and declaims.
"Wee
slekit
cow'rin tim'rous beastie,
O what a panic's
in they breastie!
Thou need na
start awa sae hasty, wi' bickering brattle.
I wad be
faith to run and chase thee, wi' murddering prattle!"
"WELL." said
the
Englishman to his Scottish colleague,
"I see you saved
the psychiatric ward for the last."
"Nay, nay." the Scottish doctor corrected him. . .
(wait for this...!)
"This is the
Serious
Burns
Unit."