CHAPTER XVI.--BARDS AND PIPERS.

Ancient bards an illustrious class--Ossian's poems--Office of bard or seannachie--Bards of recent date--Ceilidh--Antiquity of bagpipes--Office of piper in old days--In the present day--Love of pipe music in Gairloch--Some old Gairloch bards--Ruaridh Breac--The English bard--Duncan M'Rae--Roderick Campbell, piper and fiddler--The Piobaire Ban--List of living Gairloch pipers 173