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Updated: June 21, 2025
We felt reassured, and when for a second time the guttural voice addressed us in unintelligible patois, we perceived the innocent object of this mysterious visit. Searching in a capacious goat-skin bag, a species of Neapolitan sporran, this descendant of the Poseidonian Greeks produced and held up to our gaze three birds that he had shot in his morning’s hunting.
"Where it is," replied my guide, after the affectation of considering for a moment, "I cannot justly tell probably where last year's snaw is." "And that's on the tap of Schehallion, ye Hieland dog," said Mr. Jarvie; "and I look for payment frae you where ye stand." "Ay," replied the Highlander, "but I keep neither snaw nor dollars in my sporran.
The Bailie put on his spectacles to examine the mechanism, and when he had done, returned it with a smile and a sigh, observing "Ah! Rob, had ither folk's purses been as weel guarded, I doubt if your sporran wad hae been as weel filled as it kythes to be by the weight."
"Where it is," replied my guide, after the affectation of considering for a moment, "I cannot justly tell probably where last year's snaw is." "And that's on the tap of Schehallion, ye Hieland dog," said Mr. Jarvie; "and I look for payment frae you where ye stand." "Ay," replied the Highlander, "but I keep neither snaw nor dollars in my sporran.
On Sundays, however, he made the best of himself, and came out like a belated and aged butterfly with his father's sporran, or tasselled goatskin purse, in front of him, his grandfather's dirk at his side, his great grandfather's skene dhu, or little black hafted knife, stuck in the stocking of his right leg, and a huge round brooch of brass nearly half a foot in diameter, and, Mr Graham said, as old as the battle of Harlaw on his left shoulder.
Our visitors wore the official berretta, European shirts, that contrasted with coral necklaces and rings of zinc, brass, and copper, and handsome waistcoats, fronted by the well-tanned spoil of some "bush" animal, generally a wild cat, hanging like a Scotch sporran this is and has long been the distinctive sign of a "gentleman."
While it was hard to read Irschchan expressions, Medart liked the steady look in this one's jade-green eyes. He did think they looked faintly ridiculous in kilt and sporran, but that had become the Irschchan mode of dress almost as soon as MacLeod, a man aggressively proud of his Scots heritage, appeared in one at the official welcoming ceremony.
"That would seem proper," Corina agreed, "though I would prefer something other than your style. A kilt is nice, with a cloak for bad weather, and the sporran is useful but I do not think I would be comfortable with fitted garments all over, such as yours." "Good point," Medart said.
"I advise no man to attempt opening this sporran till he has my secret," said Rob Roy; and then twisting one button in one direction, and another in another, pulling one stud upward, and pressing another downward, the mouth of the purse, which was bound with massive silver plate, opened and gave admittance to his hand.
The Bailie put on his spectacles to examine the mechanism, and when he had done, returned it with a smile and a sigh, observing "Ah! Rob, had ither folk's purses been as weel guarded, I doubt if your sporran wad hae been as weel filled as it kythes to be by the weight."
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