Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
PAGE A ROMAN ROAD 1 THE BLACK DOUGLAS 8 IN THE SHADOW OF ST GILES’ 16 A WEAVING VILLAGE 23 WHERE THE CLANS FELL 30 TAM O’ SHANTER’S RIDE 37 AN OLD TULIP GARDEN 45 BY THE BLASTED HEATH 52 AMONG THE GALLOWAY BECKS 59 IN KILT AND PLAID 66 AT THE FOOT OF BEN LEDI 74 CADZOW FOREST...
PAGE A ROMAN ROAD 1 THE BLACK DOUGLAS 8 IN THE SHADOW OF ST GILES’ 16 A WEAVING VILLAGE 23 WHERE THE CLANS FELL 30 TAM O’ SHANTER’S RIDE 37 AN OLD TULIP GARDEN 45 BY THE BLASTED...
2. Part 2Then what of the Lady Anne Campbell of Argyle, at one time betrothed to Charles II.? The youthful Prince, aged twenty, had been crowned gorgeously, after the ancient manner of t...
3. Part 3A few strides beyond the stream his grey mare had to carry Tam past a dark, uncanny spot--“the cairn whare hunters fand the murdered bairn.” It was covered then with trees, and...
4. Part 4Not another trout, however, can be tempted to bite in that eddy; the fish are too well fed by the spate, or too timid. “There will be more to catch,” says Jeanie, “higher up the...
5. Part 5What sorrowings then for those who would never return must there have been within these walls--what aching hearts for those who had escaped! The smoke of the houses in Clydesdal...
6. Part 6And the steamer draws in to the little wooden pier under the mountain, where the horses are waiting. A quiet and peaceful spot it is, with the clear green waves washing in among...
7. Part 7This is the silent month, they say, because the birds have nested and foregone the twitterings of their courting-time; but from the lark up aloft, a quivering black speck in the...
8. Part 8A heavy “carry” is tearing across the sky, but the air is fresh and clear; and see, away below through the darkness, by the loch-side, shining hospitable and bright, are the lig...
9. Part 9Breakfast is a delight after such an appetiser; and fresh eggs and thin oatcakes, creamy porridge, golden marmalade, and all the wealth of Highland fare, disappear with startlin...
10. Part 10Breakfast is over--a Highland breakfast. Full justice has been done to the pleasant porridge and warm creamy milk, the fresh herrings that were alive in Loch Fyne a few hours ag...
11. Part 11There could hardly be a greater contrast than that between the fog-laden atmosphere of Queen Street Station, Glasgow, on a winter morning, and the frosty, bracing air of the cou...
12. Part 12Rather must the city pride herself now upon her glories of the present. Far off, upon the great Clyde artery at Govan, where the nets of the salmon-fishers once hung in the sun...