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Updated: June 25, 2025
And so, far into the night, the Highlander lay silent, and John Broom watched by him. It was just midnight when he partly raised himself, and cried, "Whisht, laddie! do ye hear the pipes?" The dying ears must have been quick, for John Broom heard nothing; but in a few moments he heard the bagpipes from the officers' mess, where they were keeping Hogmenay.
It was Christmas week, and, in spite of the war panic, there was festivity enough in the barracks to keep the errand-boy very busy. Then came New Year's Eve "Hogmenay," as the Scotch call it and it was the Highland regiment's particular festival.
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