GAMES


Answers to the games will appear in the next issue

CRYPTOGRAM


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SOLUTION TO Last Month's' CRYPTOGRAM:


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JNMMC ZQTRXDQI



Lord Aberdeen was quite touched when I told him I was so attached to the dear, dear Highlands and missed the fine hills so much. There is a great peculiarity about the Highlands and Highlanders; and they are such a chivalrous, fine, active people.
Queen Victoria





 

Game

Scotland has had more than its share of scientists and inventors. Here are FIVE different scientist/inventors. Can you tell us what they are most famous for? Some are easy - some are really hard. The clues are not much help I fear! (Like they ever are!

1. John Logie Baird

2.Alexander Fleming

3. John Napier

4. James Watt

5. Thomas Graham




ANSWERS TO Last Month's' QUIZ:

1. At Hallowmas, whan nights grow lang,
And starnies shine fu' clear,
Whan fock, the nippin cauld to bang,
Their winter hap-warms wear,
Near Edinbrough a fair there hads,
I wat there's nane whase name is,
For strappin dames an sturdy lads,
And cap and stoup, mair famous
Than it that day.


ANS. Robert Fergusson (1750–1774) from Hallow-Fair



2. Far 'yont amang the years to be
When a' we think, an' a' we see,
An' a' we luve, `s been dung ajee
By time's rouch shouther,
An' what was richt and wrang for me
Lies mangled throu'ther,


ANS. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) from The Maker to Posterity



3. He was born the day the brig on the Fleckie Road gaed down, in the year o' the great flood; and since the great flood it’s twelve year come Lammas. Rab Tosh o' Fleckie’s wife was heavy-footed at the time, and Doctor Munn had been a' nicht wi' her, and when he came to Barbie Water in the morning it was roaring wide frae bank to brae; where the brig should have been there was naething but the swashing o' the yellow waves. Munn had to drive a' the way round to the Fechars brig, and in parts of the road, the water was so deep that it lapped his horse’s bellyband.



ANS.George Douglas Brown (1869–1902) from The House with the Green Shutters



4. The tartan tred wad gar ye lauch;
nae problem is owre teuch.
Your surname needna end in –och;
they’ll cleik ye up the cleuch.
A puckle dollar bill will aye
preive Hiram Teufelsdröckh
a septary of Clan McKay
it’s maybe richt eneuch,


ANS. Robert Garioch (1909 - 1981) from Embro to the Ploy



5. "Are ye meanin' Drumsheugh?" said Whinnie, "for ye 'ill never get a penny piece oot o' him. Did ye no hear hoo the Frees wiled him intae their kirk, Sabbath past a week, when Netherton's sister's son frae Edinboro' wes preaching the missionary sermon, expectin' a note, and if he didna change a shillin' at the public-hoose and pit in a penny. Sall, he's a lad Drumsheugh; a'm thinking ye may save yir journey, Dominie."


ANS. Ian Maclaren who was born John Watson (3 November 1850 - 6 May 1907) from Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush





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