Scotchman

A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

Two of the partners, both of them Scotchmen, and recently in the service of the Northwest Company, had misgivings as to an enterprise which might clash with the interests and establishments protected by the British flag.

He described the balls at Government House, and the manner in which they kept themselves cool in the hot weather, with punkahs, tatties, and other contrivances; and he was very witty regarding the number of Scotchmen whom Lord Minto, the Governor-General, patronised; and then he described a tiger-hunt; and the manner in which the mahout of his elephant had been pulled off his seat by one of the infuriated animals.

"Then you may come, and I'll teach you to knit as the Scotchmen do.

Lambert's camp because those gentlemen from the city pay well -- whilst your Scotchmen, Puritans, Presbyterians, Covenanters, or whatever you choose to call them, eat but little, and pay for nothing."

In contact with this wicked world, his manner revealed that happy mixture of two extremes--the servility which just touches independence, and the independence which just touches servility--attained by no men in existence but Scotchmen. Enormous native impudence, which amused but never offended; immeasurable cunning, masquerading habitually under the double disguise of quaint prejudice and dry humor, were the solid moral foundations on which the character of this elderly person was built.

He condemned British operations in the country for being "a device for giving trade monopolies to the English -- or rather to gangs of Jews and Scotchmen."

[Simpson] regarded [Kossuth] as the personification of patriotism, and that love of Fatherland which breathes so fervently in Scotchmen. They would forgive him if he gave utterance to the national feeling in those burning words familiar to every school boy, but which no repetition could weaken-- Breathes there a man with soul so dead.

Lennon's readers are informed that "some Scotchmen live in caves" and "walk on their hands to save their shoes - not that they're mean".

The English FA had staged five games in 1870 and 1871 - but they had chosen the venue (London), picked the England team and even picked the Scottish team ("Scotchmen" mainly from London area).