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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? T mbt type shoesyilai: ugg boots clearance And then—he took hold of me. Took hold of you |
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