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der felt himself a Scot. He
would willingly raid into the Scotch lowlands; but his courage failed him
at the borderand he regarded England as a perilousunhomely land.
When the Black Watchafter years of foreign servicereturned to
Scotlandveterans leaped out and kissed the earth at Port Patrick. They
had been in Irelandstationed among men of their own race and
languagewhere they were well liked and treated with affection; but it
was the soil of Galloway that they kissed at the extreme end of the
hostile lowlandsamong a people who did not understand their speech
and who had hatedharriedand hanged them since the dawn of history.
Lastand perhaps most curiousthe sons of chieftains were often
educated on the continent of Europe. They went abroad speaking
Gaelic; they returned speakingnot Englishbut the broad dialect of
Scotland. Nowwhat idea had they in their minds when they thusin
thoughtidentified themselves with their ancestral enemies? What was
the sense in which they were Scotch and not Englishor Scotch and not
Irish? Can a bare name be thus influential on the minds and affections
of menand a political aggregation blind them to the nature of facts?
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And then—he took hold of me.
Took hold of you

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