Wry obervations about rural life in north-east Scotland in the 1930s written by Barrowsgate in Doric

Barrowsgate explains the difference between the meanings of “feech”(an exclamation) and “fich” – the latter being the knob on the bottom of a certain variety of French clay pipe.

Note: the end of this article is missing but an almost identical version appeared two years later in the Mearns Leader. It ends with a plea for Scots to value their own traditions and language more.