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•Veinadn'f4 WielOOMO , to loOrne And, ,Loolge,
Sim! thee, land or etreenie, there is blessing in etoreg
Enioleer 0le winds,on eur ergetalltne seas!
And thunderthgao aaneVer before,.
A. welcome to Lorne and WS 1,0400 LOUlfie.,
09 /Mr are the fielde that our foretathere won
Tom the (fake of the forest nevi yellow withtern,
Shag g.lew liko a mantle of gold in idg sun
,For bonnie Louise and the young lerd of Loxne.
And lair are our foreste When outman doth lend
Her gold and het crimson; got Miter than these,
And dearer, th ,e fiag we are sworn to defend
With the young lind of Lona and his'bounle Louise,
An oar loyalist fathers once hailed. wtth delight
The folds of Mb; flag thatfron tyranny frees,
Sven so do theiiloyalist children 112,Vite
'Us young lord et. Lorne and hie bonnie Lotto.
-Our brotherm, regretting the freedom they won,
With a Brae) that belonged to old oolony doge,
Will rejoice within rum, for at heart they are one
With us in our weleorne to Lorne and Louise.
Ilon the mother of empires to glery etlakest
. While her ebildren united in harmony dwell;
And the sera she hath eet on thie.land of the taker;
Shall be gained to us and our brothers as Well.
Wo vaunt not of freedorn, exd yet we axe freirr
A prosperous people are eau to please; •
And loyal for aye to Old England will bo
' Withlthe young lord of Lorne and hie bennie remise.
With the best blood of Scotland and England there goer'
Tho spirit of freedom in hearts withont guile;
Then.twnie with our maple the thistle and rose
For bonnie Louie.) and the Son Of Argyle.,
.fuld these with tiro ellsenock and fillies of l'ranee.
We'll garland with ribbons of orange and•green,.‘
With emblems united our noople advance
To weleoMe the children of Canada's eileen.•
Aud what though' our Canada winters be cold;*
Our old fashioned hearthe give a cheerier blaze, .
And the charm of our sunimere bath never been teal
Then come•to us, Lorne, with thy bonnie Louise,
For thee, land of streame,, there is blessing in store;
Rejoice, 0 ye winds, on our crystalline fronek,
And thunder, Niagara, as never before,
For the young lord of Lorneund his bonnie Louise.
Jluo Panto,, im the Chicago 2171.1C8.
Retribution -A highland smile
When Cumberland's soldiers were
ravaging the Highlands after Culloden,
raany strange and fierce encounters took
place between them and straggling par-
ties of Highlanderwho were endeavor-
ing to reach their respective homes. ,The
• .cruelties perpetrated by the soldiers
-were sometimes visited with terrible
-vengeance by the exasperated High..
• lenders, as - the instance I shall now re-
late will 'show. •
Two of the clan Donachne (Robert -
sone), wearied and hungry, were. thread:
ing-their lonely way through the dreary
inotintain passes, woods and swamps
that lay between them and their home
in Athol. In order to elude the vigi-
lance of the soldiers the two 'clainainett
had often to retraeFtheirstepei.ancl.take
rugged and circuitous routes, rendering,
as a matter of course, their jeprney har-
assing and tiresome in the extreme.•
One mcirning as our two heroes emerged
frem a peountain gorge they were start-
led at the sight of alate coludin of
smoke rising lazily. through the thin
early mist, whilst the •flames . hissed,
leaped, and flashed in a blaZing mess
on a fire' -doomed Highland cottage.. A
dozen soldiers stoed looking, on, laugh-
ing and chettingewith savage .indiffer-
ence, while they surveyed, with evident
gusto, their cruel aud cowardly handi-
work. A burly sergeant igit behind.
withfolded arms, his leak to a bush,
andsmoking his pipe with an Retires -
Bien ,of face that clearly indicated a
stolid and brutal nature. Allan end
Duman Robertson, our two breve clans -
lace, instinctively drew back •wetting
the bushes, so that -they could •watch
unseen the •doings of the soldiers.
Could the soldiers • only • have known,
while jubilant over their fiered-like work,
that the eyes of two brave, powerful, and
desperate men were fixed • upon them,
and determined not to lose sighe of them
till a terrible vengeance had beep ex -
meted, in all likelihood ,their mirth
would have assumed a more subdued
tone.
After the flame!! had reduced • the
cottage to a smoking mass of ashes, the
sergeant arose, and, addreoing hes meu,
put himself at their head and marched
off With a swaggering air as if they had
performed some deed of intrepid Mar-
tial daring. No sooner had thesoldiers
disappeared than the.two claninion, ad-
vanced from their place of concealment
and apprached the smouidering asho,
where a sight met their eyes -which
• raised their desire of vengeance to a
terrible pitch. Before them lay the
charred remains of four
fearfully attesting the barbarous cruelty
of their destroyers. • With knitted.
brows and eyes flashing fire, their broad
• and brawny chests heaving with furious
Indignation, they drew their swords
and registered a vow in heaven to fol-
low the soldiers nnd not leave a single
man of them alive to tell the tale of
their butcheries; and that vow was kept
and executed. All daydid the 'deter-
mined clansmen follow in a wake of the
soldiers, resting when they rested; but
not for a moment did their desire for
vengeance cool as they with intense an-
xiety looked for an opportunity to
carry out their fixed purpose errant/me
with success.
Towards evening the teoldiere halted
at a deserted hut, end after exatninixig
its interior, they seemed to all appear-
ance to make preparations to -rest -1
the night. The two Highlanders now
watched their movements with •eager
scrutiny, from. a thicket of hazel !melees
by which they Wire completely hid.
As our two heroes spoke in Gfelics, we
must just translate hetet English what
theriaid, for the benefit of the English
reader. Duncan' said Allan, there's
not a man before our sight will love
thitt hut alive; atothetehuritecl hub end
black roasted bodies shall tell how
speedily the Clan Donechieoan exeeute
vengeance •on a cruel enemy.' The
Weeping dog's eyee ate open at. present,
^ and will not shut until his teeth bite
itieep,replied Duneere
The soldiers, after a brierconstiltatien,
entered the hut, and hi order to ensure [
their safety, left one of their number
eutside to act as sentry, and he walked
slowly backward and forward before the
door, earring his musket on his alma -
der. Jedging from the hilarious seunde
that soon ore° from the hut, the sold-
iere were evidently well supplied with
m.eature comforts, stimulating liquor
being clearly in the Ascendant. The;
aentry was net overlooked in their rairtb,
several ''refreshers' hiving ben handed
out to hirn during Ms watch. The
Saasenach is merry,' •observer' Allan,
butthat very naerrituene is the certain
itnell:of their doom.' And their'.song
shall" end in the wail ot woe,' added
Duncan.
looked at each other, low whispers pale.
Rd among them, and then .01 leirdly.
loeleing fellow rose and pointed te- the
door, • Allan again stepped out, and,
thrusting the point of the sergeant's
swor'i into -the ground, told the Voldier
to teltelt and defend himself; A second,
eambat enseed, butenot so had as the
first, for the soldier was skilled in the
use of the weapon, and, moreover, pos-
sessed considerable strength.
While the combat was (*Ding on the
seldiers suddenly sprang to their feet,
and, rushing at Duncan. with the inten-
tion of overwhelming hini and securing
his weapon, a wild struggle common. -
Twilight was fast gatberifig 0,et .the eed within, Duncan WAS not to be
hills and in less than half an hour the Caught napping. Springing • back he
mellow liglat of a lovely moon ?as
silvering' the uppetee•portions of the
landscape, and throwing the lower into
a deep sombre shade—the toue ensent/de
forming a pone of grand end weird -like
bea,uty. The sounds of hilarity Within
kept the eolchers at bay, cutting two of
their nunaher down whilet Allan at the
nieentent entered, having despatched his
antagonist, and, rushing on, slew an-
other.. The remaining 'oven retAtted
backwards, to thO corner, whereupon
the hut were fast beceming lees boistee- 'Allan and Duncan walked to
be
door,
ous ; the sentry was canoe in anti an- which they abut behind 'them, and fag -
his unsteady step but : ill qualified to withes:. Having eaeh g,one and taken a
8'3°11'01 •again with hirchen
other put in his place, who seemed from tnneci
musket, they retureed.to tbe hut; and
having thrust the muzzleof the mus-
kets: among the dry thatch, they at lance.
dischargedthetn end in a momene the
mot was on tire, • fit minute or two
the whole theteh wee in one • blazifig
lness—the flaenes datiling./heie forlety
tongues upward inthe clear moonlight,
and hissing in waving grandeur, carried
terror • and. 'despair to the miserable
wretehes within. Madly the soldiers
struggled to open the door; but; in a
brief space their steuggles ceased, as
'masses of burning thatch ancl hlezing
• rafterswere falling among them, whilst
the yells of Mortal aeony were moatap-
pailing. The clensmn's revenge weei its
ctimplete as it watt fearful.;Bringing
forward the soldierer mokets they
recklessly •threw eheni .anmeg ,the
flames, and being ell loaded, the fie-
queht explosioes .invested the scene
with a character the pose terrific. The
headless corpse was dragged from the
bun and copsigned,to the flames, aid
• when morning dawned, thin smokes,
fleeting. 'away, .front the • smouldering
ashee, mingledwith the mists Of the
..Leaving the scene of their Ven-
geance, the two Highlanders retired 40
a wild and lonelY retreatart a distenee,
and,. being 'wearied, they -Were soon
;Weep, . ' Snob is ati instance of. the kind
of retallatiens which the brutal soldiers
••of CeMberlatid provoked. '
, •
keep watch and ward over lne drunken:.
cempanions, A , email burn passed
within a few yards of the pies. where
tha clansmen stood, and the •euleer (The
waters along the reeky: channel' was
dietinctly heard for a .considerable dis-
tance over the silent _heath.- The Ben.
tiwin consequence most of his eVenings
inclelgenne, had become thirsty, And
healieg the •refreshing sound of :the
mountain rivulet, approached with the
,evident intention of allayinghis thirst:
-Laying down the umeket, and stretch,
ing hitnself down on his belly, and loWe
ering.hie. head till hisntouth • dame in
•
contact with, the cooling liquid, he little.
thought that in a moment his eleom
would • be, sealed. • At three bounds
Allan clelneered the intervening space' be.•
•tween hihnnd„ the prostrate soldier, his
'Claymore flashed ip the moonlight, and
.inshalf a second the. soldier's head was
slowly rolling down the burn, and, dye:
ingitieweters with tints of gem. The
.first has not • tasted a lingering death ;
he bashed his luck, and theresteeball
have their's,' cooly remerkedeAllen,, as
he'etopped and wiped his eemed on the
geess.Their luck .is net fee distant
• • .• • . .
now, adeecl -Duncan, looliinge•towarcls
the hut. The. Saseenacli isegoingeo
sleep ; the noiso. is hushed.; sheet Will
this sleep haeatlieir long and last ;one
is•the next.' ' • . , • ..
Both inetinctively, moved cantiously
towards theibue, occasionally stepping
to listen, and to...learn, it possible, if the
rest 'of the ioldiers were asleep. Coming.
within a few. yards of the hut, the tWO'
Highlanders- distinetly heard'a stmeg,
chorue.of snoring, a eound tMt cleaely.
indieated to the avengers that • the mo-
nTerib for action had ardved, , On reach-
ing the door, ' which was partly, open,
they cautiously -p.eered within, and
there before •theie gaze lay the • soldiers;
faeteasleep, upon some dried grass which
lay in the far end of the hut. Allan
and Duncan briefly exchanged a 'few
•Whiepers, then stealthily Moved to where
the% seldiers' muskets eteed ire a row
against , the will. Allan now sloWly
drOW: his eivoed, fixing his eye .,on the
steeping acediers • at the same time,
Whilst Duncan, coolly proceeded to re -
dove their muskets to the door. Bayo-
nets had been fixed, so that the sleepers
were tompletelyedeprived of, their arms.
Both now stole out, and with great ex-
pedition carried the muskets a little
distance, and concealed them among.
Otte bushes. • Returning to the hut
they eeenred the door, with birch
and retiting a little distend°, held a brief
consultation. They are in our power,'
'began Allan, 'but we seiil not assault a
sleeping foo.' The serg.ettnt has a
sword,' suggested Duncan; let each
eoldier in his turn take that sword and
we will fight then) singly, andif they
°bine to these terms, We'll fire the lutt
Abotit their ars.' I 'shall take the
first eixe replied Allan, and thesr
giant to begih with, and Yon, -Duncan,
can claymore the other half-dozen.' •
.They•now• approached the door 'ra-
pidly, and..openhig if with little cere-
mony, and drawing their • swords, .step -
,ped ; Attention 1' shouted.
Allan, With a piercing Celtic accent.;
Rise and. learn 'out
Amazed and bewildered beyetid. exprese
sion, the sOldiers sat up, and seeirig
their ail= were gone, and the fixed.and
stern facee of the two powerful ereied
Highlanders standing before thee, they
were eabeeed at • once, as they °lonely
SAW tibey were • fairly trapped, 'Ser-
geant,' said Allan, yott have got a
sword; come to the outside my cont.
rade will, keep the door while yeti and
-fight to the death. There's a ,chanco
yon do not. deserve.' Tbe aergeant
quailed for a Moment as he surveyed
his stal watt, antagonist; but seeing no
other altematiVe or mops of, ,eseane
from the fix they were in; he rose to his
feet and pointed to the door. Allan
walked out followed by the sergeant
Whilst Duncan kept a watchful oyo,ou
.
the mem Peeing about, Allan uttered
the monosyllable, Draw,' lerandishieg
his sword in 0. threatening manlier at
the same titn. The sergeant dreW hie
sword,. a brief combat ensued, but the
soldier WO no match. for the brawny
Highlander, for hi leo than ••A minute
he tolled on the heath cloVen to the
Bers'e0ocroe. • GietezetnetenCoeuenteieci
-oay a thorough tnovZedge of the natural
tawserhieb govern the eperations of digestion
andt (13)y eateful appliewtion
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