16 OCTOBER 1926, Page 17

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

have been told that one of Punch's staff stated that three-fourths of their jokes came from Scotland. A company of Scots who get going on " stories " give an evening quite beyond anything for fun compared with what a similar English company can .provide. I have a clear recollection of five Scots in London who were the only mirthful and human group in a great stiff English Incitel and dining-room.—I am,

The Vicarage, Cumwhitton, Heads Nook, Carlisle.