I believe most Caudle/Caudill/Caddell/Cordle, etc, agree that we are at least
in part Scottish. Thought everyone might enjoy this.
Bud Caudle
Wha's like us
Damn few and they're a'deid
The average Englishman, in the home he calls his castle, slips into his
national costume, a shabby raincoat:patented by chemist Charles Macintosh
from Glasgow, Scotland.
En route to his office he strides along the English lane surfaced by John
Macadam of Ayr, Scotland.
He drives an English car fitted with tyres: by john Boyd Dunlop of Dreghorn,
Scotland.
At his office he receives the mail bearing adhesive stamps invented by John
Chambers of Dundee.
During the day he uses the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell born
in Edinburgh.
At home in the evening his daughter pedals her bicycle invented by
Kirkpatrick Macmillan, blacksmith of Dumfries.
He watches the news on the television an invention of John Logie Baird of
Helensburgh, Scotland and hears an item about the US. Navy founded by John
Paul Jones of Kirkbean .
He has by now been reminded too much of Scotland and in desperation he picks
up the bible only to find that the first man mentioned in the good book is a
Scot king "James VI" who authorised its translation
Nowhere can an Englishman turn to escape the ingenuity of the Scots. He could
take to drink but the Scots make the best in the world. He could take a rifle
and end it all but the breech loading rifle was invented by captain Patrick
Ferguson of Pitfours, Scotland.
If he escapes death he could find himself on an operating table being
injected with penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming of Darvel, Scotland
and given an anaesthetic discovered by sir James young Simpson of Bathgate.
Out of the anaesthetic he would find no comfort in learning that he was as
safe as the bank of England founded by William Peterson of Dumfries, Scotland.
Perhaps his only remaining hope would be to get a transfusion of guild
Scottish blood which would entitle him to ask "wha's like us"
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Regards
Joanne Marsh
Toowoomba, Qld
Australia