Barrowsgate, writing in the Buchan Observer in what would be a seven-month run (the other columns in the series have the byline “Anzac”), thinks that Scots are naturally suspicious of “incomers” and cites the example of his father.
Note: The anecdote about the customer who only leaves half the required amount of money on the bar for his whisky is the same as in Barrowsgate’s 1933 verse “Twice Wintin’”. That verse was also published in the Mearns Leader.