They're trying to droon me

From an interview with a former teacher who accompanied evacuees in Scotland:

"On the first night there, the town provost came to the place where I was billeted and asked me to see to the boy he was looking after.
He had climbed out a window and was up on the roof, refusing to come down. He was shouting, "Help, help. They're trying to droonme". He was in a terrible panic, close to tears.
It turned out the provost had run a bath for him and he'd never had a proper bath before. At home, they had a communal tin tub that they shared with all the other families in the close."

Aaw, poor kid!

(Taken from the Daily Record, 29/8/2009)