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SOLUTION TO LAST MONTH'S CRYPTOGRAM:



My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
Mike Myers.





 

Game

Many books have a famous first line:

"Call Me Ismael"
(Moby Dick by Herman Melville);

"It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief,
it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light,
it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope,
it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens.

Here are some first lines by Scottish authors - maybe not as famous as the two above. Can you name the book each one starts?


1. In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.

2. Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable.

3. Early this morning I opened a window in my schoolhouse in the glen of Quharity, awakened by the shivering of a starving sparrow against the frosted glass

4. I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life

5. Kinraddie lands had been won by a Norman childe, Cospatric de Gondeshil, in the days of William the Lyon, when gryphons and suchlike beasts still roamed the Scots countryside and folk would waken in their beds to hear the children screaming, with a great wolf-beast, come through the hide window, tearing at their throats.




ANSWERS TO LAST MONTH'S QUIZ:

1. Where was the highest temperature recorded in Scotland?
ANSWER: Greycrook in the Scottish Borders.



2. Where was the lowest temperature recorded in Scotland?
ANSWER: Braemar, Aberdeenshire"



3. Where was the fastest wind in Scotland recorded?
ANSWER: Cairngorm Mountain



4. Where is the foggiest place in Scotland?
ANSWER: Cove, Aberdeen



5. Where is the wettest place in Scotland?
ANSWER: Glenshiel Forest



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