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Fraser, was entertaining the chief of his clan, old Lord Lovat, who, in these anxious days, when the Prince was at Inverness and the Duke of Cumberland at Aberdeen, had thought fit to retire into the wilds of Badenoch, to the house of his faithful clansman.
"You will not be saying much to a deaf man through inch boards!" remarked the clansman from the garden. Mr. Palmer hurried after them, and his men followed. Alister found the door fast and solid, without handle. He turned a look on his companion, and was about to run his weight against the lock. "It is too strong," said Rob. "Hector of the Stags must open it!" "But how?
But, when the totemic relation became a definite feature of social organization, the feeling was that the totem was in the nature of a clansman, of the same blood as the human group, and entitled to all the respect and affection with which men regarded their clan-brethren.
Such spirit did my native pipes, played by a clansman, put in me that my weariness much abated, and we made great progress down the glen, so that before the tune had ceased we were on the back of Montrose's men as they crept on quietly in the night. The piper stopped suddenly enough when some shots rang out, an exchange of compliments between our pickets ahead and some wandering scouts of Argile.
Would it have weight enough to cause the arrest of the young duke? "Eh, sirs! what an awfu' event the like o' that wad be!" whispered one gray-haired clansman to another. And all bent eager ears to hear the remainder of the testimony which was still going on.
After the battle numbers of his soldiers had deserted. According to their custom, as soon as any clansman had secured as much booty as he could conveniently carry, he started off home to his mountains to deposit his spoil.
For a crime a clansman might be expelled from clan and territory; but, apart from crime, the idea of eviction from one's homestead was inconceivable.
When Dalgetty mounted his steed, he found himself attended, or perhaps guarded, by five or six Campbells, well armed, commanded by one, who, from the target at his shoulder, and the short cock's feather in his bonnet, as well as from the state which he took upon himself, claimed the rank of a Dunniewassel, or clansman of superior rank; and indeed, from his dignity of deportment, could not stand in a more distant degree of relationship to Sir Duncan, than that of tenth or twelfth cousin at farthest.
Duncan Anderson, in describing the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, refers to the Frasers thus: "And the shrill pipe its coronach that wailed, On dark Culloden moor, o'er trampled dead, Now sounds the 'Onset' that each clansman knows, Still leads the foremost rank where noblest blood is shed."
He is supposed to be miscalled by Cicero, Fabius Pictor, for Cicero mentions a work in Latin by the latter author, whereas it is certain that the old Fabius wrote only in Greek. The best authorities now assume that Fabius Maximus, as a clansman and admirer of Pictor, translated his book into Latin to make it more widely known.
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