Hold Your Tongue
Neil
Gow, from Inver, the famed composer and performer on the violin,
possessed a great share of mother-wit and readiness of retort,
and was never the least put about in any company. Neil having
borrowed some money from Mr Murray of Abercairney the latter
took a bet that he would for once put Neil to the blush; and
just when a large party had assembled, and Neil had been placed
at the head of his orchestra, he addressed the leader:
“I
say, Neil, are you not going to pay me that five pounds you
owe me?”
Neil
very calmly exclaimed, “Oh, if you had held your tongue,
I would have been the last to speak of it.”
