Evening star., 1918-10-06

tested violently. u am ocOtch. IL
isn't the same thing at all. In Eng
anything-in the army. in industry,
in commerce. in politics.. in law. In
the navy or in the merchant marine
are Scotch. or Irish. or Welsh. They
dalized, but polite. limited himself to
replying that those were questions OF
a domestic character into which he
must refuse to enter, and that they
were certainly inapropOs at a time
when we were all at war with the
boches.
perhaps you are right" MacIvorr
conceded. But, YOU see, can't stand
it shall never be able to stand it
when any one confuses me with those
people of the south. know one thing.
and that is that the best people In the
world are the MacIvors of Clan Mac
NO" answered Piccioni. "the best
people in the world are the Piccionis
of the Piccioni family. There are 500
tene.
II see from your words" said Mac
1vor, that you are capable of under
standing me. You have in your coun.
try clans such as we have. After the
MacIvors the best people in the world
are those of Cauldtaneslap."
How do you say that?" asked
Piccioni.
"Cauldtaneslap. 1t is very easy to
pronounce. There are the MacKees,
the Mackinnons. the MacRaes-all
more or less related to the MacIvors.
After that there are the other clans
of the Highlands. After that there are
some families in the Lowlands. After
that there is nothing at all"
II understand" rejoined Piccioni.
"Or, at least begin to understand. 1t
is little like the way we think in
Corsica"
ITO explain it to you further" Mac
Ivor continued, II must tell you the
story of monkey who came once to
Cauldtaneslap. 1t was a magnificent
monkey. an orang-outang as big as a
man, who belonged to an American
circus. The circus, giving exhibitions,
Travelled all over Scotland with It's
monkey who was great attraction.
But at Lammermoor. which is near
Cauldtaneslap, he fell sick. very sick.
He had lufg trouble. Scotland is the
most beautiful country in the world.
But it's climate is a little moist. And
it seems that orang-outangs live bet
ter in warm countries. So this one
died.
"The circus people regretted his
death because he brought them honor
and profit. But what could they do
with dead monkey? They placed him
then whipped up their horses. The
dead monkey lay there. stretched out
alongside the highway.
There Archie MacIvor and Gilbert
MacIvor, my cousins. came across
him that evening. They were return
ing, l believe, from a little smuggling
expedition.
II told you that this monkey was as
big as man. He had, in fact, abso
lutely the appearance of man, with
grayish side whiskers and his hair
parted in the middle of his head /
didn't see him. But I tell you what
they told me. Gilbert and Archie were
much touched.
"'What misfortune" they said.
Here is a man dead on the roadside!
And close to our fircsides! And he
had to die without the consolati tons OF
religion! We must, at least, give him
a Christian burial
"Meanwhile they turned him over
and looked at him carefully. The
corpse was naked. SO it must have
been crime. Would it not be advis-
able to inform the magistrates and to
summon the laird. who was at the
same time a Justice of the peace, to
hold an inquest? But at this moment
Archie suggested a necessary prelimi-
nary.
1--WE must first know he said,
whether the dead man is "A native of
the country. 1t wouldn't be worth
while bothcrjng abou. amy one who