That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 11, 2019

“Okay gents, if you have to fight, no hitting below the sporrans.”

“Ian, how many times have told you? Only fight with the customers AFTER they have paid!

“I will fight to the death to defend my right to wear wine bottles on my crotch!”

Some people take the threat of bagpipes very seriously!

Then Jim made a crack about “men in skirts”, and the fight was on!!

McGregor!!! “You cheat at Horseshoes!!!”

A Scotsman walks into a blacksmith’s……

Someone’s about to get Kilt…

This might be the first time I found the original painting humorous before reading the alternate title.

Obviously the lady with the cane has come for back rent.

Oh boy. Are those Mouse Hole anvils??

You folks from PETA need to listen better. I said I want my horse SHOD! SHOD!

“Relax mate. When he said he heard you did shoddy work, he was talkin’ about shoeing horses.”

Guess again. Which hand has the quarter?

Okay guys, that is not how you play Rock,Paper, Scissors.

“Who you callin’ a ‘wee sleekit’, ye cow’rin’, tim’rous beastie?”

“I say – is this the way to the police officer’s funeral ?”

“Relax, Jim. He called you the Scots word for “blacksmith”, which is “ferriER”."

Going at it hammer and tongs.

I can’t believe that no one is doing a “pull my finger” comment.

At the Blacksmith’s: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hugh_Collins_-_At_the_Blacksmith%27s.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

http://www.askart.com/artist/Hugh_Collins/11023542/Hugh_Collins.aspx 

has very sparse info about this artist (couldn’t find a bio, no Wikipedia.org page), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2114 (January 10, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“For the last time, you ignorant sassanach, it’s Hogmanay!”

25 × 30 inches. Definitely jumbo. “Depicting an argument between a Lance Corporal of the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders and a blacksmith.” Owned by The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Museum.

The time frame, when the Scots were driven out of the homes by landowners eager to make room for sheep farms, holds the secret to the confrontation: “In Sutherland not one single soldier can be raised. Captain Craig, RN, the Duke’s Factor, A Free Church Minister and a Moderate Minister have been piping for days for volunteers and recruits; and yet, after many threats on the part of the Factor, and sweet music on the part of the parsons, the military spirit of the poor Sutherland serfs could not be raised to fighting power. The men told the parsons “We have no country to fight for. You robbed us of our country and gave it to the sheep. Therefore, since you have preferred sheep to men, let sheep defend you.” (Prebble, pp300-301, The Highland Clearances, Penguin edition 1963)”

“You’ll take the high road, and I’ll take the low road, and I’ll get to the Scottish pasties afore ye!”

C’mon Ian. I told my sister you’d be comin’ to dinner. You don’t have to eat haggis if you don’t want.

The passing of the baton did not go as well as he had hoped.