Four separate wrecks had cast up four men upon a lonely island. Two were Scotchmen, the other two were Englishmen. After several years a passing steamer hove to and took the four aboard. Angus and Donald were escorted to the skipper's cabin, there to tell their experiences.
Said Angus,
"It would grieve you to see the Englishmen. Never a word did they speak all the time they were there for there were not properly introduced."
"And how did ye lads make out?" inquired the skipper, who also was a Scot.
"Aye, the very day I found Donald on the beach we organized a Caledonian league, a golf club, a debating society, and a Presbyterian church."
- From Many Laughs for Many Days by Irvin S. Cobb, 1925