Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 29, 2025
"It was well played, Donald," said he, in the Gaelic; "and I will tell you that the Skye College in the old times never turned out a better pupil. And will you take a glass of whiskey now, or a glass of claret? And it is a great pity your hair is red, or they would call you Donull Dubh, and people would say you were the born successor of the last of the MacCruimins."
At this praise imagine telling a piper lad that he was a fit successor of the MacCruimins, the hereditary pipers of the Macleods the young stripling blushed hot; but he did not forget his professional dignity for all that. And he was so proud of his good English that he replied in that tongue. "I will take a glass of the claret wine, Sir Keith," said he.
It is true that Donald, relieved of the care of Johnny Wickes, had sped by a short-cut through the fir-wood, and was now standing in the gravelled space outside the house, playing the "Heights of Alma" with a spirit worthy of all the MacCruimins that ever lived.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking