The story has been reproduced by McStorytellers with the kind permission of Cally Phillips of Ayton Publishing, who single-handedly is bringing about a renaissance of Crockett’s work.
So enjoy Crockett’s tongue-in-cheek humour. And pray that after tomorrow it won’t be another case in Scottish politics of plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, as one of Crockett’s contemporaries once famously wrote.