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The story goes that when I was born a sour old maid called to see the new baby. At sight of my little red face she involuntarily ejaculated: "Eh me! Aweel-a-wat, he's no' bonnie!" Then observing my mother's resentful looks she added, "But they that the bonniest bairns generally grow up to be the ugliest men and women."

Upon which my eldest brother aged six looked up innocently at her wrinkled face and remarked: "You must have been a very bonnie bairn, Miss Pringle."