and exhorted all true Hieland men,
'Keep up your hearts, for Charlie's fight,
Come what will, you've done what's right,'
a crowd had gathered. For, you know, Jessy, how Donald can sing men out of themselves, and the crowd began to sing with him, so that this passionate little rant filled the square. Windows were lifted, and doors flung open, and men and women at them joined heartily in the song."
"And wherever were the constables?"
"They were singing with the crowd, and no necessity for them to interfere. It was a perfectly orderly crowd, singing their national songs, and when they had finished
'Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled,'
and fervently assured each other they,
'For Scotland's King and law,
Freedom's sword would strongly draw,
Free men stand, and free men fa','
my Uncle Hector threw wide his door, and bid the lads into his parlor.
"He is a grand old pagan—I mean saint."