human
You say, sir, in your report, 'N.B.--nothing extraordinary since guard mounting,' when your brother officer, who was on guard with you, has fallen over a precipice 400 feet high and been killed! call you this nothing? Our sub, who hailed from 'auld reekie,' thus replied,
gpt
Weel, sir, I dinna think there is onything extraordinary in that; had he fa'n doon a precipice 400 feet high, and _not_ been killed, I should ha'e thocht it vera extraordinary indeed, and would ha'e put it doon in my report!