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Updated: June 12, 2025
And once it was a blind boy who asked them to sing "Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom, Lead Thou Me On." One Sunday afternoon two Salvation Army lassies had come with their Major to hold their usual service in the hospital, but there were so many wounded coming in and the place was so busy that it seemed as if perhaps they ought to give up the service.
'Well, girls, she said, 'to-morrow will be the great day, the grand day, when the Duke gives prizes to the school. I think nothing myself of the prizes, having a right on my mother's side to the grand crest of the Camerons; but I 'm drowsy. Most of you have done your best, and even Leuchy will be put about if she does not get a prize. Listen to me, lassies.
'The hour strikes, said Hollyhock. 'Come along, Meg. Meg shrank and shivered. 'Oh, but, Holly, I'd much rather not. 'It is too late to change now, dear Meg. You must just think of the ghost, and the ghost only. Come at once to the ghostie's hut, and I 'll dress you up. Lassies, the rest of you had best keep out of sight, although you are welcome to linger in the shrubbery to see the fun.
The inmates expected him and understood the scheme; presently he went out by the door into the village street, still munching at his round of bread. To such lads and lassies as hailed him in the waning light he replied gruffly, explaining that he had 'a sair hoast, that is, a bad cough, from which he had observed that young Bower was suffering.
Aweel, the men a' went to the fishing and a' the weemen stayed at Bothanairidh, and in the evenings the young lassies would be making great laughing while the cailleachs span; and once, long long ago, when the crotal was young on the rocks on the moors, there came a swarthy lad and said fareweel tae his lass under this tree.
I had had enough experience in hospitals and camps by now to have learned what soldiers liked best, and I had no doubt at all that it was just songs. And best of all they liked the old love songs, and the old songs of Scotland tender, crooning melodies, that would help to carry them back, in memory, to their hames and, if they had them, to the lassies of their dreams.
"The place where you have a real home the birthplace of your children and where you hope to see them grow up becomes very dear to you. And here are the youngsters!" "Well," said Peggy, "I've often thought to ask you before, Mrs. Hogarth, but how are you going to educate your lassies? What are you going to do with them? and you favour lassies in both families two to one in each of them."
The huts were frequently shelled and there was imminent danger for a long time that the German Army would break through, which, of course, added to the strain. The Zone Major went back and forth bringing more men and more lassies and more supplies from the Base at Paris to the front, and many a new worker almost lost his life in a baptism of fire on his way to his post of duty for the first time.
I first went to live under the roof o' my youngest sister, who had always been my favourite; but, before six months went round, I found that she began to treat me just as though I had been a servant, ordering me to do this and do the other; and sometimes my dinner was sent ben to me into the kitchen; and the servant lassies, seeing how their mistress treated me, considered that they should be justified in doing the same and they did the same.
Fortune favours the brave, and wherever the maiden turned her arms the enemy was repulsed, until at last the gallant Spanish soldiers vied with the English in admiration of this valorous foe: 'If England doth yield such brave lassies as thee. Full well may she conquer, faire Mary Ambree.
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