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It is true the Scotch had bagpipes. The village turned out to listen to them in whole-eyed and whole-eared wonder. And the memory of the skirling music remained indelible. Otherwise there was little difference. And when a Midland regiment succeeded a South Coast regiment, where was the difference at all? They might be the same men.
There's something about the skirling of the pipes that fires a man's blood and sets his feet and his fingers and a' his body to tingling. Whiles I'd be wi' the band masel'; whiles I'd be off elsewhere.
Declares, that when the declarant cried loud for her bairn, and was like to raise the neighbours, the woman threatened her, that they that could stop the wean's skirling would stop hers, if she did not keep a' the founder.* * i.e. The quieter.
Major Ferguson, boldly conspicuous in a white linen hunting-shirt drawn on over his uniform, was here and there and everywhere, and always in the place where the bullets flew thickest. His left hand had been hurt at the first patriot gun fire, but it still held the silver whistle to his lips, and the shrill skirling of the little pipe was the loyalist rallying signal.
"Houston's got my kit into his bivouac.... You two fellows hop outside and hammer in the pegs.... Let's save this tent if we can.... And some one lend me a towel for a rub down!" Wrapped in rain-coats, Hubbard and myself faced the skirling rain. When we slipped inside again the colonel had dried himself.
One little event trod on the heels of another, rubble skirling down the mountain-side, growing to an avalanche. Or, again, Cosgrave might have been the odd, unlikely keystone of their daily life. He had not seemed to matter much, but now that he had been torn out the bridge between them crumbled.
"Hand your tongue, ye skirling limmer!" said the officer who had acted as master of the ceremonies to this extraordinary performer, and who was rather scandalised at the freedom of her demeanour before a person of Mr. Sharpitlaw's importance "haud your tongue, or I'se gie ye something to skirl for!"
"The skirling Jezebel!" cried Berwin. "I'll pack her off right away!" "Are you a Scotchman?" asked Denzil suddenly. "Why do you ask?" demanded Berwin, without replying. "You used an essentially Scotch word 'skirling." "And I used an essentially American phrase 'right away," retorted the man. "I may be a Scot, I may be a Yankee, but I would remind you that my nationality is my own secret."
"Robertson's done up," said he to himself; "thae young lads are aye sae thoughtless. What deevil could he hae to say to Jeanie Deans, or to ony woman on earth, that he suld gang awa and get his neck raxed for her? And this mad quean, after cracking like a pen-gun, and skirling like a pea-hen for the haill night, behoves just to hae hadden her tongue when her clavers might have dune some gude!
Below, the work had been cast as though in a light staccato key, but here the music for the machinery had a more powerful note. "These are the oscillating grinders," said Mary, raising her voice above the skirling symphony. "It isn't everybody who can run them." She wondered whether her visitors caught the unconscious air of pride which many of the women wore in this department.
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