The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-30
POOR ROBBER !!
BY OCTAVE THANET.

Harry always wants his aunt Alice e.
tell him a truly true story" So on.
night she told him this s'truly trut
story"
$50 many years ago that grandma's
grandma couldn't remember it. wher
people were still writing sixteen at the
right OF their figures for the year and all
the big men wore short trousers like lit
tie boys, with swords dangling about
their legs; and there were no railways,
no telegraph wires, no steam engines,
n carriages were SO heavy and clumsy
that people were carried about the streets
m covered chairs by men, and forks
were only used by rich people, and
witches could be burned allve-lonp.
long ago, two hundred years ago, thGs
was a Scottish knight who had a brave
daughter. The knights name was Sir
John Cochrane, and the girls name was
Griselda, but he always called her Grizzy,
Grizzly was the best and most dating
rider In all the country.
"Now, at this time the King was q
cruel man, and to escape his vengeance
Sir John had fed across the seas. Fool
ishly he came back, with the Earl OF
Argyle, and they tried to make the Duke
of Monmouth King instead of James.
That is how it came to pass that one
morning Grizzly looked through the
funny little panes of window glass in a
Highland castle and saw the stone court
yard below swarming with armed men.
all in their Highland kits"
why, did big men wear kits, thena"
said Harry.
"Yes, dear" said his aunt, ssbut not
quite like your kits; they were shorter
and made out of plaided wool, and their
stockings (which they called strews1
were plaided also"
"Oh, I know" said Harry, "Willy
Grant has Highland clothes; and he has
a white skin purse and a dagger, not a
real dagger, but a make-believe dag
GER
But the Highlanders had real daggers
.dirks they called them-stuck in their
belts. And they carried huge swords
which they called claymores, and a round
shield which they called a buekler.o
didn't they carry any gunsa" asked
Harry eagerly, 81 should think the other
would shoot them all dead be- !
fore they could get up to cut with their
swords"
"oh, yes, they carried guns said
aunt Alice, laughing, ssbut they always
brew their guns away"
tThen what was the good of theman
shrewd little Harry.
ooh, | dare say they got them again,
lfter the battle. You see this was the
way the Highlanders fought-They fred
II their guns, with more noise than hurt,
most likely, then they yelled sClaymorer
md charged like a herd Of wild bulls.
And SO frightful was this mass of furious
men with their swords, and so difficult
1t, in those days, with their lumber
ng, awkward guns, to fix the bayonet in
to fight, that often the Lowland in
antry were panic stricken and fed, pell
aeIin
Wasn't Grizzly frightened, when she
aw all those fierce men2n
eOh, no; because they loved her father,
nd she knew they would do no harm.
he laughed to hear the bagpipes' shriIl
otes and the mems shouts, and swung
ack the window and leaned out to see.
Doubtless she felt proud of her hand
father on his gray horse, and when,
morning, not much later, he rode
way she waved her scarf until they were
ut of sight.
Poor Grizzly only a few weeks passed
efore she knew that of all those gallant
len hardly . score, wounded, half
arved, hunted like wolves, had crawled
to their glens; and her father over :
oWered, after a desperate resistance, !
as taken away to prison.
aAh, how many tears were shed in
and England during those !
sdeous daysl All over the country the !
e Kings dragons were shooting and 9
lrnlng. They burned down the houses, =
g broke the stones Of the mills. and
up the fruit trees SO that ali the !
untry about Inyerary, where the Earl
Argyle lived, Was a desert. They cut 4
the poor prisoners ears when they did ].
: Kill them outright, before sending
IN across the sea to be slaves. In Eng.
g wicked Judge Jeffries condemned l.
J rebels Is fast as he could pass SEN E
Ice. &
But dare nottell you all the wicked nj
s that was done. Long ago, the cruel r
lost his crow and died a wanderer. 81
3 ago, fhe cruel Judge died, in prison, re
q tne curses 81 A whole nation-theg "
s punished as Vigorously as the badl