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Updated: June 17, 2025
She had a cousin, Jenny Wabster, that dwelt in Tenshillingland than, and mony a summer nicht up the Fechars Road, when ye smelled the honeysuckle in the gloaming, I have heard the two o' them tee-heeing owre the lads thegither, skirling in the dark and lauching to themselves. They were of the glaikit kind ye can always hear loang before ye see. She doesna lauch sae muckle now, puir bodie!
He strayed away by himself from the watchers whom he had placed in ambush on the crest of the hill, and wandered far down the steep slopes amid the wild tangle of undergrowth, peering through the tree trunks and listening through the whistling and skirling of the wind and the restless beating of the branches for sight and sound of the marauders.
"Certainly I mean it no otherwise," said the King. "What should I get by slaying this insolent soldier? Were it the Constable Saint Paul indeed" here he paused, as if he thought he had said a word too much, but resumed, laughing, "our brother-in-law, James of Scotland your own James, Quentin poniarded the Douglas when on a hospitable visit, within his own royal castle of Skirling."
And there were pipers with them, too, skirling a tune as I stepped ashore. There were tears in my eyes again, as there had been at Sydney. Every laddie in uniform made me think of my own boy, well off, by now, on his way home to Britain and the duty that had called him. They were gathering, all over the Empire, those of British blood.
Not I, I am sure. I can hardly support you at hame. And ye wad be marrying, I'se warrant, as your father did afore ye, too, and sending your uncle hame a pack o' weans to be fighting and skirling through the house in my auld days, and to take wing and flee aff like yoursell, whenever they were asked to serve a turn about the town?" "I have no thoughts of ever marrying," answered Henry.
Not I, I am sure. I can hardly support you at hame. And ye wad be marrying, I'se warrant, as your father did afore ye, too, and sending your uncle hame a pack o' weans to be fighting and skirling through the house in my auld days, and to take wing and flee aff like yoursell, whenever they were asked to serve a turn about the town?" "I have no thoughts of ever marrying," answered Henry.
No, this lament must be for some other death, for the strange skirling wail of the Egyptian women came up to her corner window from the road, from the bridge, and from the boats on the river.
My band still travelled up and down, the length and width of the United Kingdom, skirling and drumming and drawing men by the score to the recruiting office. There was no more talk now of a short war. We knew what we were in for now. But there was no thought or talk of anything save victory. Let the war go on as long as it must it could end only in one way.
None the less, after listening to the skirling of the bagpipes and to the romantic ballads which were sung in Scotland she is said to have remarked with a sort of sigh: "Whenever I hear those ballads I feel that England belongs really to the Stuarts!"
And Andrew the Scot saw the danger, heard it skirling in his ears, for he had been brought up among mountains. He did not quite see what good he could do, that staid Church Elder, by joining the girl in the Devil's Seat. But he came of a Campbell clan which never flinched. He was preparing to slide down, himself, when an arm a left elbow rather thrust him rudely back.
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