This weeks cartoon has a very tenuous link to events due to take place on the 25 January this year. Apart from the largest Fire Festival in Europe it also happens to be Burns Night, a celebration of the life and poetry of the Scots poet Robert Burns, born on the 25th January 1759.
The cartoon displayed below by Lancelot Speed (186o-1931) is set in Scotland during the deer stalking season, and there lies the tenuous link – Robert Burns's poem “My Heart’s in the Highlands” which includes the verse:
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;
A-chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
It also made me laugh, which of course is the main reason for including it.
Transcript below:
NEW SPORTSMAN: (who imagines himself to be invisible to the quarry). "They can't see us, can they ?"
STALKER: "I'm thinkin' they'll be awa'. There's naethin scares them sae much as an ostrich."
Very funny once again. I'd love to 'borrow' a copy of one of your marvelous cartoon posts and contrive it into a post on my own little 'Blogette' sometime - with full and obvious accreditation to you and yours here - of course. A kind of mini ' blog promo' if you will. The image I was thinking of was the 'July Weather' golfers post. Only because 'once I'd got it', it made me laugh so much!
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Happy new Year by the way...
Hi Phil, yes feel free. Glad you enjoy them!
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