“In music, in warfare, in song—

With bagpipes and banners unfurled,

Like a torrid simoom borne along,

The Highlanders lighten the world.”

CHAPTER VI.
The “Language” of the Pipes.

“Wild as the desert stream they flow,

Wandering along it’s mazy bed;

Now scarcely moving, deep and slow,

Now in a swifter current led,

And now along the level lawn