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The regiment in the second rank Sempill's was drawn up three deep the first rank kneeling, the third upright all with bayonets fixed. They received the onrushing Highlanders with a sharp fire. This brought the clansmen to a halt, a few were forced back, more perished, flinging themselves against the bayonets. Their bodies were afterwards found in heaps three or four deep.
Sempill's powny, the same that fetched our kit." "Well, that's your job to-morrow. See, I'll write you a line to the station-master. And will you undertake to get it some way into the House?" "There's just the one road open by the rocks. It'll have to be done. It CAN be done." "And I've another job. I'm writing this telegram to a friend in Glasgow who will put a spoke in Mr. Loudon's wheel.
Beaten and blinded by a storm of snow in their faces, the Highland right clove the ranks of Monro and Burrell, only to fall, in layers three or four deep, before the fire of Sempill's regiment in the second line. The whole English force advanced; Charles rode to his second line, and offered to charge with them. His officers told him that it was in vain; Highlanders once beaten would not rally.