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...the first series of Chronicles of the Canongate, consisting (besides a biographical sketch of the imaginary chronicler) of three tales, entitled ?The Highland Widow,? ?The Two Drovers,? and ?The Surgeon?s Daughter.? In the present volume the two first named of these pieces are included, together with three detached stories which appeared the year after, in the elegant comp...

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...ONICLES OF THE CANONGATE ..................................................................................................................... 41 THE HIGHLAND WIDOW ................................................................................................................................... 109 MR. CROFTANGRY INTRODUCES ANOTHER TALE. .....................................

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...................................................................... 41 THE HIGHLAND WIDOW ............................................................... ............................................................ 209 NOTES TO THE HIGHLAND WIDOW. .............................................................. ................................................ 214 Note 10.—FIDELITY OF THE HIGHLANDERS. ................................................................. ...raphical sketch of the imaginary chronicler) of three tales, entitled “The Highland Widow,” “The Two Drovers,” and “The Surgeon’s Daugh- ter.” In the ... ...of gratitude to the friend of my childhood, who first introduced me to the Highlands, their traditions, and their manners—had been engaged actively in... ...which their dark tartans fur- nished to the scarlet and white of the other regiments.] There were some Italian and Flemish pictures of admitted authen... ...s, mother, I go far—far from all of these. I am enlisted in one of the new regiments, and we go against the French in America.” “Enlisted!” uttered th... ...of Garth, [The gallant and amiable author of the His- tory of the Highland Regiments, in whose glorious services his own share had been great, went ou... ...e of friends and acquaintance.] in giving the real history of the Highland regiments, has rendered any attempt to fill up the sketch with fancy-colour...

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...ted to the command of one of several independent com- panies raised in the Highlands at the commencement of the troubles in the reign of Charles I.; a... ...irmities. Beside him sat his sister Janet, a little neat old woman, with a Highland curch and tartan plaid, watching the very looks of her brother, to... ...t consols. He retired with the purpose of enjoying this income in the wild Highland glen, in which, when a boy, he had herded black cattle and goats, ... ...ter, although it was not without a reluctant tear that he heard told, as a Highland woman alone could ten it, the story of the expa- triation of his k... ...t thou leave thine own bonny Border? Why comes thou hither, disturbing the Highlander, Wasting the glen that was once in fair order? What added to Ser... ...trymen, the fathers of the war, and the raisers of those valorous Scottish regiments that were the dread of Germany, began to fall pretty thick, what ... ...aguer- lasses who followed his camp marshalled into tertias (whilk me call regiments), and officered and commanded by those of their own feminine gend...

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...oth parties, we have no hesitation to give their names at length. When the Highlanders, on the morning of the battle of Preston, 1745, made their memo... ... as if determined to the very last to defend the post assigned to him, the Highland gentleman com- manded him to surrender, and received for reply a t... ... target. The officer was now defenceless, and the battle-axe of a gigantic Highlander (the miller of Invernahyle’s mill) was uplifted to dash his brai... ...s, that while the civil war was raging, and strag- gling officers from the Highland army were executed with- out mercy, Invernahyle hesitated not to p... ...ahyle hesitated not to pay his late captive a visit, as he returned to the Highlands to raise fresh recruits, on which occasion he spent a day or two ... ... and pointed against the heights. The march was continued by three or four regiments of in- fantry marching in open column, their fixed bayonets show-... ... of rapine. He was particularly employed in learn- ing the strength of the regiments in Scotland, the character of the officers, &c., and had long had...

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...he yottowas** sat at his feet. * “Leaves,” the plates of Tahiti. ** “Yottowas,” so spelt for convenience of pronunciation, quasi Tacksmen in the Scott... ...d climbed to the noonday skies, It shone on the smoke of feasting in the country of the Vais. Robert Louis Stevenson 46 TICONDEROGA A LEGEND OF THE W... ...artan And the ancient game of war. And down the watery valley And up the windy hill, Once more, as in the olden, The pipes were sounding shrill; Again... ...eir way, And the neighing of the war-pipes Struck terror in Cathay.* * “Cathay.” There must be some omission in General Stewart’s charming History of ... ...And the neighing of the war-pipes Struck terror in Cathay.* * “Cathay.” There must be some omission in General Stewart’s charming History of the Highl... ...ages, small of stature, black of hue, dwelling underground – possibly also the distillers of some forgotten spirit? See Mr. Campbell’s Tales of the W...

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...bitterness of spirit which seldom fails to attend internal dissension. The Highlanders, who formed the principal strength of Charles Edward’s army, we... ..., should come forward to finish what had been gallantly attempted by a few Highland chiefs. It is probable, indeed, that the Jacobites of the day were... ...rea- sons of a public nature. The unfortunate sufferer had not come to the Highlands solely upon his private affairs, as was the general belief; but i... ... ten years of proscription and danger, skulking from place to place in the Highlands, and maintaining an uninterrupted correspondence between Charles ... ...es, whose brow wore rather an anxious look on the occasion, I dispatched a Highland chairman to the livery stable with my Bucephalus, and slunk, with ... ...rs, upon whom alone the trust of the exiled family reposed, assembled into regiments which act under the orders of the existing dynasty. [The Highland... ...egiments which act under the orders of the existing dynasty. [The Highland regiments were first employed by the celebrated Earl of Chatham, who assume... ... perhaps,’ answered Redgauntlet; ‘but the policy which raised the Highland regiments has provided for that. We have already friends in these corps; no...

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...ng rather bleak bills, and past bleak ponds and dilapidated castles and monasteries, to the Highland-look- ing village of Kirkoswald. It has little cl... ...eps his last sleep. It is worth noticing, however, that this was the first place I thought ‘Highland-looking.’ Over the bill from Kirkoswald a farm-ro... ... here, after Waterloo, rather than yield its en- sign to the new power, one of his faithful regiments burned that memorial of so much toil and glory o... ...a particular and dippable order, such as Pepys, the Paston Letters, Burt’s Letters from the Highlands, or the Newgate Calendar… . 138 Essays of Trave... ...arely been able to visit, in the proper spirit, the wild and inhospitable places of our own Highlands. I am happier where it is tame and fertile, and ...

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...iament had passed acts ‘for build- ing additional places of worship in the highlands and islands of Scotland.’ These acts may be looked upon as one se... ... settled by Parliament that forty-two new churches should be raised in the highlands, with an endowment from the government of £120 annually for each ... ... and three clerical persons for the chapels of ease, and forty-two for the highland churches—making a total of two hundred and forty-five new members.... ...rhaps the right, for the Prussian cavalry (who drew their custom from some regiments in the service 107 Thomas de Quincey of Gustavus Adolphus; and t...

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...ncil of war to Konsider what Kourse it would be advisable to taKe. But as soon as the Kouncil had met, a preliminary Kuestion was raised. The army was... ...tV oted by gentlemen From Ireland, and From the Low Kountries, who bore indeed King James’s Kommission, and were Kalled Kolonels and Kaptains, but who... ...haps I should rather say (in stagewright phrase) the Curtain or final T ableau of a story conceived long before on the moors between Pitlochry and Str...

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...ted us to the end of the lock under an umbrella. We had now brought ourselves to a pitch of humility in the matter of weather, not often at- tained ex... ...ould not be possible to fight at all in such a spirit. The bravest conscript would turn pale if such a ditty were struck up beside him on the morning ... ...72 Robert Louis Stevenson ! HE MOST PATIENT PEOPLE grow weary at last with being continually wetted with rain; except of co... ...and walked shabbily. Each man inclined at his own angle, and jolted to his own convenience, as he went. There was nothing of the superb gait with whic... ...and the bang of the drum, when the brasses cease, and the shrill pipes take up the martial story in their place? A girl, at school in France, began to...

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...ry, the Scottish people concealing their King among their mountains in the Highlands and showing a determination to resist; Edward marched to Berwick ... ... he still defied the ire ful King, and lived among the steep crags of the Highland glens, where the eagles made their nests, and where the mountain t... ...ued letters to borrow money at high interest. The Parliament raised twenty regiments of foot and seventy five troops of horse; and the people willingl... ...h the blood stained Irish rebels for a sum of money, and invited the Irish regiments over, to help him against the Parliament. In the battle of Naseby... ...d now the common soldiers began to take that of fice upon themselves. The regiments under orders for Ire land mutinied; one troop of horse in the ci... ...this, and soon afterwards galloped away on horseback to join some tiresome Highland friends, who were always flourishing dirks and broadswords. He was... ...nd persisted in worshipping God as they thought right. A body of ferocious Highlanders, turned upon them from the mountains of their own coun try, ha... ...with such vigour as to prevent his raising more than two or three thousand Highlanders, although he sent a A Child’s Histroy of England 424 fiery cro...

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...ord Arran, and so shall all his Grace’s Scots vassals and followers in the Highlands. I’m bent on it; and when I take a thing in my head, ’tis done. H... ...to hold it. In expectation of the stroke that was now preparing, the Irish regiments in the French service were all brought round about Boulogne in Pi... ...he Council summoned; the guard at Kensington and St. James’s, of which two regiments were to be entirely relied on, and one known not to be hostile, w... ...astlewood who insisted on coming,” the Doctor said.) Argyle had marched up regiments from Portsmouth, and sent abroad for more; the Whigs were on the ...

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...ile doing penance for his presumptuousness, he believed that he could lead regiments of men. He was not the army’s General, he was the General’s Lieut... ... to suggest a piece of counsel to his Chief. On his own particular drilled regiments, his Chief may rely; and on his knowledge of the country of the c... ... Moorsedge, and had then beheld their strangely-hatted lieutenants and the regiments of the toneless respectable on the pantiles and the mounts, the c... ...o. I have to understand you!’ Colney cast a weariful look backward on the ‘regiments of Anglo-Chinese’ represented to him by the moneyed terraces, and... ...itying his girl. ‘I promised Fredi she should never count a year with- out Highlands or Alps. You remember, mama?—down in the West Highlands. Fancy th... ...e times. I wonder old Colney hasn’t said it. If we’re not plucked, as your regiments are of the officers who have learnt their work, we’re emasculated...

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...near the head of the Tay, he came upon the small army of 300 men with 1000 Highlanders, armed with Lochaber axes, at a place which is still called Dal... ...sheathed in armor and on horseback, had a great advantage against the wild Highlanders, who only wore a shirt and a plaid, with a round target upon th... ... strong, brave people, long limbed and red-haired, of the same race as the highlanders of Scotland. They had gradually spread themselves over the midd... ... noble was a robber chief; Scottish Borderer preyed upon English Borderer, Highlander upon Lowlander, knight upon trav- eler, everyone who had armor u... ... of princely blood joined in the plot, and 148 A Book of Golden Deeds 300 Highland catherans were ready to accompany the expe- dition that promised t... ...nd in the valley he could see with his telescope the various Parliamentary regiments, as they poured out of the town of Keinton, and took up their pos... ...e when war had become far more cruel and mischievous in the hands of hired regiments than ever it had been with a feudal army, and when at the same ti...

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...t let us look further before we decide. The ant has soldiers—bat talions, regiments, armies; and they have their appointed captains and generals, who... ...ter of economy of labor. I will illustrate: PRESENT FORM: through, laugh, highland. SIMPLIFIED FORM: thru, laff, hyland. PHONOGRAPHIC FORM: [ Image... ...ic alpha bet, the pen has to make only three strokes. To write the word “highland,” the pen has to make twenty two strokes. T o write “hyland,” the ...

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...son, when that noble Northman flows narrowly, but unfathomably through the Highland gorge. But, as in his nar- row-flowing monomania, not one jot of A... ...- mill beneath him. On the occasion in question, Queequeg fig- ured in the Highland costume—a shirt and socks—in which to my eyes, at least, he appear... ... you seem to track the antlered thoughts descending there to drink, as the Highland hunters track the snow prints of the deer. But in the great Sperm ... ... the same prescient way that vultures hover over the banners of march- ing regiments in the east. But these were the first sharks that had been observ...

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...dson, when that noble Northman flows narrowly, but unfathomably through the Highland gorge. But, as in his narrow flowing monomania, not one jot of Ahab... ...read mill beneath him. On the occasion in question, Queequeg figured in the Highland costume — a shirt and socks — in which to my eyes, at least, he ap... ... you seem to track the antlered thoughts descending there to drink, as the Highland hunters track the snow prints of the deer. But in the great Sperm ... ...in the same prescient way that vultures hover over the banners of marching regiments in the east. But these were the first sharks that had been observe...

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...atmeal cake is better fare than the Oswego bass, and sigh for a swallow of Highland water, when, if so minded, he has the whole of Ontario to quench h... ...ernoon, and then, when you get back to Y ork, ex- amine one of the militia regiments making its greatest efforts.” “Well, to my eye, Sergeant, there i...

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...y small villages which are scat- tered about in so desert a country as the highlands of Scotland, every farmer must be butcher, baker, and brewer, for... ...uch a trade as even that of a nailer in the remote and inland parts of the highlands of Scotland. Such a workman at the rate of a thousand nails a-day... ...he same price, very nearly still continues to be paid in some parts of the Highlands and Western islands. Through the greater part of the Low country,... ...nt, marriage. It seems even to be favourable to generation. A half-starved Highland woman frequently bears more than twenty children, while a pampered... ... withers and dies. It is not uncommon, I have been frequently told, in the Highlands of Scotland, for a mother who has born twenty children not to hav... ..., before the commencement of the present disturbances to the pay of twenty regiments of foot; to the expense of the artillery, stores, and ex- traordi...

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...in Kingdom-come, where the night-porter has to wear wet petticoats, like a Highland chief, to make short work of the sparks flying about, otherwise th... ...The half-dozen lines were cordial, breathing of their walk in the Austrian highlands, and naming a renowned city hotel for dinner that day, the hour s... ...IA IN WALES AN AUGUST OF GALES and rains drove Atlantic air over the Welsh highlands. Carinthia’s old father had impressed on her the rap- ture of ‘sm... ...d never been courted: she deserved a siege. She was a daughter of the racy highlands. And she, who could say to her husband, ‘I guard my rooms,’ witho... ...ir. The wealthiest nobleman of all England stood on the pier, watching the regiments of that doomed expedition mount ship, ready with the bribe of the...

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...e corrupting below; Where the dense starr’d flag is borne at the head of the regiments, Approaching Manhattan up by the long stretching island, Under ... ...ustard, the fat tail’d sheep, the antelope, and the burrowing wolf I see the highlands of Abyssinia, I see flocks of goats feeding, and see the fig tr... ...ps, the arm’d sentries around, the sunrise cannon and again at sunset, Arm’d regiments arrive every day, pass through the city, and embark from the wh... ...g—give me the sound of the trumpets and drums! (The soldiers in companies or regiments—some starting away, flush’d and reckless, Some, their time up, ... ...ne turban’d head she wags, and rolls her darkling eye, And courtesies to the regiments, the guidons moving by. What is it fateful woman, so blear, har... ...not war, Nor the measur’d march of soldiers, nor the tents of camps, Nor the regiments hastily coming up deploying in line of battle; No more the sad,... ... heavy plank’d wharves, the huge crossing at the ferries, The village on the highland seen from afar at sunset, the river between, Shadows, aureola an...

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...f the class were called upon to record their choice of arms of service and regiments. I was anxious to enter the cavalry, or dragoons as they were the... ...accident. There was no intimation given that the removal of the 3d and 4th regiments of infantry to the western border of Loui- siana was occasioned i... ...es of the 2d regiment of dragoons, four companies of light artillery, five regiments of infantry —the 3d, 4th, 5th, 7th and 8th—and one regiment of ar... ...mediately made application to be transferred, so as to get back to our old regiments. On my return, I found that our application had been approved at ... ...price for all supplies taken for the use of the army. All officers of foot regiments who had horses were permit- ted to ride them on the march when it... ...s to the very foot of the bluffs. After leaving Memphis, there are no such highlands coming to the water’s edge on the east shore until Vicksburg is r...

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...le to get an order obeyed in the British army except in two or three crack regiments. Such frantic excesses of this disgusting neurosis provoked a rea... ...84 A Treatise on Parents and Children zen of London the family duties of a Highland cateran in the eighteenth century is as absurd as to compel him to...

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... fa- ther: and when he landed in Scotland with a very few fol- lowers, one Highland gentleman after another was so de- lighted with him that they all ... ..., close to Edinburgh, were not well managed, and were easily beaten by the Highlanders. Then he marched straight on into England: and there was great ... ...n he marched straight on into England: and there was great terror, for the Highlanders—with their plaids, long swords, and strange lan- guage—were tho... ...y house and shop ruined and them- selves murdered: though on the whole the Highlanders be- haved very well. They would probably have really entered Lo... ...cage, woven of branches of trees on a hill side, where he lived with three Highlanders, who used to go out by turns to get food. One of them once brou... ...l the men learnt something of how to be soldiers, and made themselves into regiments of volunteers; and careful watch was kept against the quantities ... ...ing, while every English person left in the city was murdered. The English regiments in India made haste to come into Bengal, to try to save their cou...

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...under the nurture of a ‘Friend of Men,’ has, in State Prisons, in marching Regiments, Dutch Authors’ garrets, and quite other scenes, ‘been for twenty... ... look blue. The only thing one sees advisable is to bring up soldiers. New regiments, two, and a battalion of a third, have already reached Paris; oth... ...s, somewhat may be healed, clouted up;— we meanwhile getting forward Swiss Regiments, and a ‘hun- dred pieces of field-artillery.’ This is what the Oe... ...ed grass.’ But on all highways there hover dust- clouds, with the march of regiments, with the trailing of can- non: foreign Pandours, of fierce aspec... ...im World-Whirlpool; discerning shapes and phantasms; imminent bloodthirsty Regiments camped on the Champ-de- Mars; dispersed National Assembly; redhot... ...lete! Such things have been; and may again be. Charles Second sent out his Highland Host over the Western Scotch Whigs; Jamaica Planters got Dogs from...

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...iolent madman of a fellow, a major of one of what I believe are called the Highland regiments. He didn’t drink, but he had an un- governable temper, a... ...dman of a fellow, a major of one of what I believe are called the Highland regiments. He didn’t drink, but he had an un- governable temper, and the fi...

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...ced with six thousand foot, English and Dutch, thirty squadrons, and three regiments of Imperial Cuirassiers, the Duke crossing the river at the head ... ...ord Arran, and so shall all his Grace’s Scots vassals and followers in the Highlands. I’m bent on it; and when I take a thing in my head, ’tis done. H... ...to hold it. In expectation of the stroke that was now preparing, the Irish regiments in the French service were all brought round about Boulogne in Pi... ...he Council summoned; the guard at Kensington and St. James’s, of which two regiments were to be entirely relied on, and one known not to be hostile, w... ...astlewood who insisted on coming,” the Doctor said.) Argyle had marched up regiments from Portsmouth, and sent abroad for more; the Whigs were on the ...

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...untryside, linked by a loop of fine chain, the railway. To accommodate the regiments of miners, Carston, Waite and Co. built the Squares, great quadra... ...knall Torkard—considered a low town—to a fancy- dress ball. He was to be a Highlander. There was a dress he could hire, which one of his friends had h... ...ire, which one of his friends had had, and which fitted him perfectly. The Highland suit came home. Mrs. Morel received it coldly and would not unpack... ...oment, and his heart stood still with anxiety. Then he caught sight of the Highland bon- net with its ribbons. He picked it up gleefully, forgetting h... ...he whole—nor Verlaine. “Behold her singing in the field Yon solitary highland lass.” That nourished her heart. So did “Fair Ines” . And— “It ...

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...re coming. Everything was lost in a scene from a movie in which khaki-clad regiments marched fast, fast across the scene. The memory of the shouting t... ...” “But this is a place to come back to. Imagine coming back here after the highlands of Thibet, where you’d nearly got drowned and scalped and had mad...

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... no doubt of the loss of the leg. Well, footmen and courtiers and Scottish Highlanders, and the corps de ballet, draymen too, have legs, and staring l... ... to good service, my love. I believe you could persuade him to give us the Highland fling on the drawing-room table.” 88 The Egoist “There is nothing... ... the salute, almost half-way, ingenuously unlike the coming mothers of the regiments of marionettes, who retire in vapours, downcast, as by convention...