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Updated: June 26, 2025
'Are ye Gairman heroes or just low-doon Austreens that ye fear ain wee bairdie? "'Lootenant, say they, 'yon feller is Tam o' the Scoots, the Brigand o' the Stars! "'Ech! he says. 'Gang oop, ain o' ye, an' ask the lad to coom doon an' tak' a soop wi' us we maun keep on the recht side o' Tam!"
"And yeer gun jammed, A'm thinkin', so wi' rair presence o' mind, ye stood oop in the fuselage an' hit the nairest representative of the Imperial Gairman Air Sairvice a crack over the heid wi' a spanner." A little group began to form at the door of the mess-room, for the news that Tam the Scoot was "up" was always sufficient to attract an audience.
The pity is that a Scottish edition was not prepared in Tam's own language; and Captain Blackie, who elaborated Tam's rough notes and condensed into a few lines Tam's most romantic descriptions, had suggested such an edition for very private circulation. It would have begun somewhat like this: "The Hoon or Gairman is a verra bonnie fichter, but he has nae ineetiative.
Almost simultaneously there came a triumphant roar lower down the street, as Mucklewame and his followers dashed obliquely across into the estaminet. Mucklewame himself was carrying the derelict Lewis gun. In the doorway stood the watchful M'Snape. "This way, quick!" he shouted. "We have the Gairman gun spotted, and the officer is needing the Lewis!" But M'Snape was wrong.
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