Duck-shot Quip Causes Lords to Stiffen in Debate
A tale from the House of Lords recalls the Lord Provost of Edinburgh answering in broad dialect that the town guard’s muskets fired “either at wild ducks or other water birds.” The Duke of Argyll calmed the moment by translating it into fluent English, noting no insult to the Lords.
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