, 1890-10-16

promptly replied ~ think sir, as
good ones could DO got for E5,
though would not like to take that
for them" My landlady, very Or
dinary sort OF woman, always asks:
(which would you prefer, sir, an
infusion OF tea, or u brewing OF cor
fee?n The humblest shopkeeper
will say; II can not supply the ar-
ticle to-day, SIR" or "I am sorry
have not the article you wish"
PARALLEL INSTANCE.
have set these expressions down
literally. The lowliest In strath or
vennel speaks with surprising cor
rectness and agreeability. Straight
forward 81 do not know" takes the
place of ~ dinna KEN" "Please
come in," or 81 am glad to see YOU"
supplants "Coom aw;" and honest
ayes, sir" will not give way to the
Lowland accepted, pleasant Eng
lish pronunciation of 80
aye" l have noticed the same
phenomenon of unpolluted English
in another region, where both En-
glish and Gaelic are spoken, at Old
Galway, in the west of Ireland.
Galway is the laughing-stock of the
brogue-slathering dilettanti of Dub
lin; and the Highlanders are ever
the butt of hypercritical Edin-
burgh. Yet both the men of
Connaught and the descendants of
the openly feared, secretly despised
Highland clans are immeasurably
the superiors of either Dublin or
Edinburgh folk in the construction
of colloquial expression and in de-
livery of speech itself Some at
tribute this perfection OF speech, in
both districts, to the remote, and to
some extent continuous, translation
of language from the old Erse into
English, preventing u corrupted
spoken language from imitation,
and tending to secure and preserve
untaintcd the pure English of lit
erature.
AT ANCIENT INVERNESS.
If this royal old capital OF
the Highlands were not pleas
ing to you from the purity OF
tongue, the attitude of citizen to
stranger, and, its people, certain
fine grain OF dignity that Is never
brusqueness, reserve that Is never
selfishness, and yet genial consid-
Grafton that never betrnys, If ii
possesses, the contemplate affability
of alert venality. you could not help
falling completely In love with the
romance of its history, the beauty OF
the city itself, and the antiquarian
interest and scenic grandeur of Its
environments. Your fancy can
travel n long way back here at
ancient Inverness, for IL was the
original metropolis of all the Plcts.
Columbia, Scotland's great apostle,
came here in the sixth century
and converted Brudeus, king of the
Picts. William the Lion granted it
four charters, and these brave old
documents are still authority for
the freedom of the city. Indeed
until the invasion of Scotland by
Edward L., Inverness was undoubt-
edly the seat, or frequent resort, OF
all Scottish kings, whose presence
was required in protecting the
ancient capital from the incurslons
of the Danes and Northern vikings,
or for quelling the Instructions OF
rebellious Northern chiefs. Macbeth,
of ShakspeGrean fame, the maormer
or great man" of Ross, became
also that of Moray, including
Inverness, by marriage, and was
once master Of the original castle OF
Inverness on "the Crown at the
mouth of the Ness, which place IL
regarded by some authorities as the
scene of King Duncan's murder
Then later castle, where the shire
buildings now stand on the crown
of u picturesque hill in the heart o
the city, was .afterward in tn,
hands of Mucduff. 1t also became
the prison of Sir John Lovat. In
1903 II was seized for Edward |. Its
capture by friends Of Robert Bruce
then u penniless fugitive in the
Western isles, prompted that valiant
adventurer to the course of enter
prise which finally gave him tn,
throne and Scotland u noble line O
patriotic kings. James /. when ii
the North, in 1927, to castigate it's
TURBULENT CHIEFS
held a parliament within 1t. Forty
years later James III. occupied it
In 1865 Queen Regent Mary O
Gulse was here to summon court
and punish Highland robbers, thel
: termed "caterans;" and seven year
} later, when Queen Mary was driver
, from the castle gate and was com
} PEELED to lodge in comfortably
: thatched habitation of the time
, some of whose walls still stand dowi
there by the site of the old bridge
Just at the harbor edge are the re
mains of tremendous fort built b,
Cromwell, among others, to over
awe the North. And 1t was from
here that, after that most brillian
series of accomplishments in the fac
of hopeless penury known to the an
nails of British warfare, the broker
remnants ofPriuce Charles Edward
little army went forth on that fa
tai 10Th of April, l747, to thei
slaughter by the Duke of Cum Der
. lands army, and in that slaughte
TO forever bury on dreary CullodeI
Moor, just over that near ridge o
hills there, the hopes Of the valian
Stuart cause.
Standing upon Castle hill, arounC
which the fair city is built, with tn,
river Ness beneath you, this ole
northern capital and its surround