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She wiped her eyes and looked at Old Hurricane, and every time she saw his confused and happy face she burst into a fresh paroxysm that seemed to threaten her life or her reason. "Who is the happy Oh, I can't speak! Oh, I'm 'kilt' entirely!" she cried, breaking off in the midst of her question and falling into fresh convulsions.
Their bodies were adorned with cow-hair circlets, but, save for a short kilt of cat's-tails and hide, they were quite unclad. They carried large shields of the Zulu pattern, and a sheaf of gleaming spears some light, others heavy and strong with the blade like a cutlass. Who, what could they be? he wondered.
'I daured him to say 'at he didna pipe weel. 'Weel dune, laddie! And ye micht say 't wi' a gude conscience, for he wadna hae been piper till 's regiment at the battle o' Culloden gin he hadna pipit weel. Yon's his kilt hingin' up i' the press i' the garret. Ye'll hae to grow, Robert, my man, afore ye fill that.
"What is it now, Jock?" in a tone between amusement and seriousness. "Ye havena found a letter from Lochiel to the Prince of Orange, offering to win the reward upon my head, or caught General MacKay, dressed in a ragged kilt, stealing about through the army? Out with it, and let us know the worst at once." "Ye are laughin', Maister John, and I will not deny ye have justification.
But whin I read about these social affairs in Kentucky, I sometimes wish some spool cotton salesman fr'm Matsachoosets, who'd be sure to get kilt whin th' shootin' begun, wud go down there with a baseball bat an' begin tappin' th' gallant gintlemen on th' head befure breakfast an' in silf definse.
I have seen them eyeing me, in cold weather, when I was walkin' around, comfortably, in my kilt. And their eyes would wander to my knees, and I would know before they opened their mouths what it was that they were going to say. "Oh, Mr. Lauder," they would ask me. "Don't your poor knees get cold with no coverings, exposed to this bitter cold?" Well, they never have! That's all I can tell you.
Sweetheart, have you the courage now to 'kilt your coats o' green satin? And I know that in the Highlands you will have as proud a welcome as ever Lord Ronald Macdonald gave his bride from the South." Then the strange smile went away from his face. "I am tiring you, Gerty," said he. "Well, you are very much excited, Keith," said she; "and you won't listen to what I have to say.
"Ef airy man had undertook hit," she responded gravely, "they'd most likely hev kilt him first an' s'arched him 'atterwards." Bud had dropped down on a step of the stile that led from the road to the yard. His heavy lidded eyes were full of weariness and pain. His limp arm sagged but he said slowly: "Thet's why I run away, Mr. Brent. I had to.
The men wore a sort of kilt, consisting of a double piece of cloth, wrapped round the body and falling to the knee. Over this was a loose tunic, with sleeves open in front. The headdress was a scanty white turban.
A Highlander, in a shrunk kilt and with long bare legs, had his head bound about with bandages till it looked like a great melon, and his sleeve dangled empty from his great-coat. Others of the Seaforths, and mere boys of the Highland Territorials, wore khaki shirts over their tartan, and these were bullet-torn and hanging in great rents.