SOURCE: "In Search of the Grampian Hills with W.C. Fields," in The American Scholar, Vol. 48, No. 1, Winter, 1978/79, pp. 101-5.

In the following essay, Prior explores the origins of a line from You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, in which Fields refers to "the Grampian Hills."

Toward the end of You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, W.C. Fields, as Larsen E. Whipsnade, attends a reception for his daughter in the mansion of the Bel-Goodies, where he turns on his charm and succeeds in ruining his daughter's prospective marriage to wealthy young Bel-Goodie, and in consequence his own last hope of saving the insolvent circus of which he is the proprietor and chief con artist. Turned out by his hosts, Fields picks up his top hat and cape with injured dignity, and as he makes his exit he calls out to his son and daughter, "On to the...