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2' THURSDAY, MARCH 21. 1918
THE SIGNAL. - GOUEKICH, ONTARIO
sorry to add. his own personal troubles, anecdotes, not always of the most pru-
which are neither few no cheerful." The .dish nature."
author of "rest Entad" had kit 'Yhe With Lockhart, Dunlop formed a friend-
-
of its authtxshipdiscussed by Chas. S. Blue in The Canadian Magazine. homeless 'hotel of Huron" in the along slip, which seems to have poen warmly
_ of 1429 to close his account with the reciprocated by the famous biugraphet
The (dowing article, which appals in ship's papers of a manuscript aim( gay of Canadian Company in London; and he and critic; and when. in 182e, the former
the March number of The Canadian vera% 'et to music, and purporting to be •ever or went to laxidon to edit The Quarterly
a translation rusk.
Gaelic, has been i Of course it might be argued that flair Review, the ..Tiger.. accompanied him
Magazine is reproduced here with the su could have had the verses in his There we • re told he lived pptxtcd by mer thaq tate rcpp t Oi
Other critics, egtully well rg tllureoua life turning_ his hand to
a1t►ee��ianal
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Pcarasaaas
THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 191e
THE CANADIAN BOAT SONG.
kind u a e n tv "a moat mu-
pemiuisiari of the publishers of the authority. Ot poseseaion when he returned to England. t
Magazine. qualified Wraged them. or have written than there from rood- thing." He wrote or the magazines.
any -
EDITORIAL NOTES,i le:tion of some incident in his Canadian comp led medical treatises. edited a news
From the lune shelling ,n the maty island.• ee1Ve* on the of haveP[ufeswr Wilson, t
-- 1 resting their theory as to his connection( tear".' But eithertheir o account given in- trailer --Thi British Press -which, it is
Mountains divide u. rnA a .ale of ser: with the r on the fact that he was the •'Noctct of origin was a 'tarn- rnteseorre to note, had as its parliamen-
How have the mighty fallen . Even But stilt our hearti are true, our hearts arc High • MS meet of [act or it was not. If it was the tar
China has Funded out a warning to Rus -
And the presiding genius of "Maga. rte moat 1 circveiwtances could not; as has beenY t the elder Dickens and
And we an dreamr h, hold the Hebrides. I voluminous co:itrlbUtre to the "Nodes." was later t rrceptstk fox the firth con-
China
that she will have W behave. ; rid a poet of a high order. Certain! he (Mown, apply to the oummistiioner of the tributiats of Bos" -and founded the
It is manypossessed qualifications which were de- 1 Canada Comand Yi'histk,'' a dub for convivial
years since cot: rr;ital of Company; if it was not, his claim Pig
It is reported that in the three Prairie these limes by a distinguished British ndedly lackingQ in the Earl of Eglinton.1 equally insupportable, fur no otter scribes Ifke hgwte1f .. His a cgpta n of
Provinces (went) per cent. more land is statesman profttdty moved a gather- but the probabilities in pts case were rvidetice has b�!! *educed on tris• behalf the dutlie of an editor a
chart that of his connection wfth U appear to have
of Scottish Highlanders and set the lessened b the di eta been
prepared for sowing than last year. leaf of (erne upon a prem that hal 'covey t t the per- Canada Upper t as singular as
Kincardine Reporter: The soldiers"
vote certainly went union. We will have
to wait until the boys get home to find
out bow they were all hypnotized.
Give your home merchant a fair chance.
You are surlily more interested in his sue -
cess than in that of a city merchant
whom sou never saw and who doesn't
care a hoot about you except to get your
his ideas about leetur-
ocular " uctes " in which the song ap-
lain and tiger -hunting. 'Sometimes The
Iain buried in obscurityAss h
_ QtrKd to il- pearnd, was written• not lot Christopher I Assuming then that the accanpanying hntish Ross would appear with leading
lustrate the sentiment c oil by High- North. but by Lockhart. This fact, at- i the mystery,note in the N who° waasntthesftrj ahe d • and story es told of how, when a' „ and the
lander' for the land from which they had tested by the puWishen of the mat[a:inr,significant
been t corn
banished b- selfish and oppressive i naturally knt coke to the hypothesis . eaixhatesc referral tis. The question change of ministry " took place under the
landlords, they attracted attention. not 1 that the son-in-law and biographer of is one that scarcely admits of a positive Bourbons, the -Tiger's' only editorial
so much by tjreir political appositeness Scott was the author of the censer as have
itmust
since in the absence of proof comment was: "We perceive that there is
as by their peculiar literary qu tlity. At well as of the article that accom necessarily depend upon circum- a chance
once. curioetty was aroused as to their them; and it has been sug ested that the none l evidence; but it is curious that of herd of any earthquin a
kes ss tin we
conee-
ortgin. Inquiries led to discussions which I may have received them from the _ none of the writes', who have dealt with yuence." Not less amusing were his ef-
filled the columns of tbe nera and Sir Walter himself, a tory as probable I the subject, has considered the possibilities forts to run a Sunday newspaper ---The
literary journals, and. presently,from the las any of the others in' view of the sir- I s( ��pt�"Tiger"mentioned name of Dr. n William the was w� Telescope--"the
twould bra of comedyof 111
mildewed pages of an old Scottish maga- 1cum itance, generally forgotten, that the ! ••Nodes,•' the (G
zine was unearthed. in its complete and , novelist's favorite brother T tt, a writer drollest kind.''
;ssodate o alt in his
mkey . original form. the now familiar "Cana- of talent. had lived'in Upper Canada for work of colonntaton, a writer of ack- 1 But Dunlop's Bobenn - life in London
dian Boat Sung I nowladged ability and to
The Royal Bank has absorbed the
Northern Crown Bank. It is a question
whether these mergers are in the public
interest. There are fewer banks in Canada
now than there were ttity-tive years
ago. and the number is constantly groy-
ing smaller. until the possibility of- a
banking monopoly is a matter fix discus -
.non.
Aircraft have become very active on the
western war front, and reports of severe
fighting may come any day. Germany is
probably bluffing about her advertised
great offensive: it is the Allies who will
have to force the fighting in that quarter.
If Germany could devote this year to the
Prussianizing of Russia she would prob-
ably consider the time well spent.
There is a tradition that the foreign
policy of the Empire is stronger in Con-
servative than in Liberal hands. Yet it
was Gladstone, the Liberal, who in 1870
protested against the German annexationof Alsace-Lorraine and predicted trouble
from it; and it was Salisbury. the Con-
servative, who ceded Heligoland to Ger.
many. and thus placed a most formidable
weapon in the hands of the Prussian war-
lords.
The D.xninion Parliament opened for
• the first session of the new term on Mon-
day. The only sensational feature at-
tending the opening was the aheence of
the Finance Minister, Sir Thomas White.
who has not been at Ottawa for some
weeks. The official reason for his absence
is ill -health, but some of the Ottawa cor-
respondents give a different version of the
matter, hinting at some more ren less seri-
ous difficulty between the Minister and
his colleagues. Hon. A. K. McLean, the
Opposition financial critic of the last Par-
liament and now a Unionist. appears to
be the acting Finance Minister.
FILL. OUT Tax FORMS.
Inmate War Tax Perms Must Be
Filed Before March 3tst.
It was inevitable that an income war
tax law should•have been placed on the
statute books. The grossing demands
made upon Canada, as one of the free
nations of the world, engaged in the life
and death battle with the forces of bar-
barism, and the necessity of distributing
the burden as equitably as possible, made
the impcw,tion of a tax. based on obi ity
to pay, merely a matter of time.
All the great nations engaged in the
conflict have foend it necessary to make
the income tax one of their principal
sources of revenue. • Among the more
striking evidences of the will to win in
s the spirit with
which the people of Great Britain -upon
whose shoulders rests the major portion of
the war's financial burden -are going
\about the work of supply -•nor the sinews
Of war. The people of France and the
United States ire as cheerfully doing their 1
pat and it is a foregone co"clusicm that r
the le of Canada. already inured to i
satrlfiee, will make of the income war tax
an opportunity to serve the holiest cause
which has ever engaged the attention of
mankind.
Like the fathers of the American Revo-
lution, the free peoples of the earth
have dedicated -their lives, their fortunes
and their sacred honor" to the cause
which they espouse. The call upon the
fortunes of the people of Canada is to
take the form of a graduated tax on all
incomes of 81,500 and over enjoyed by
all unmarried persons. or widows and
widowers without dependent children,
and of 83.000 and over, enjoyed by all
other persons, as well as by all corpora-
tions and joint stock companies.
The Department of Finance is nowcalling for the filing of the necessary
forms, filled out as required, before the
31st of March. While penalties for
failure to carry out the requirements of
the act are provided. it is confidently ex-
pected that the people of Canada, jealous
of their right to play a major role in the •
conflict, will respond to the latest call id a
spirit of quiet patriotism.
ARE POPULAR WELT OP THEE.
GREAT LAKES. -
Mts. W. J. Vale Talks of Dodd's Kidney
Pills.
Pandora. Alta.. March 18 (Special) -
• Dodd's
are never without a box of dd's
Kidney Pills in the house." That's what
Mn. W. J. Vale. a well-known and highly
respected resident of this lace. has to gay
of the great Canadian kidney remedy,
"My husband suffers from lumbago and
they always help him," is the reason that
she ggrroes. "I must also tell lou what
Iyodd's Dyspepsia Tablets did for me.
They cured me of a very bad attack of
dyspepsia i have also derived great
benefit from the use of l)ndd's Kidney
Pills."
!bold'' Kidney Pills are particularly
popular. The success with which they
hive been used to treat all kinds of kidney
Ms Item backache to rheumatism and
=lei disease have earned for thgm the
ai3tade of thousands of people.
s numbero( years. O inions, more or widereputation. however much to hes liking, was not of
Few poem; have bin mire often leis authoritative, have also been expressed per Canada.
and a notabl= figure in the history of Up- long duration. In the autumn of 1826. '
quoted in public than this remarkable et- 1 in favor of the claims of Hogg, some of 1 John (, !t had
fusion of an anonymous bard. It has ; whose work possesses the same haunting
fascinated audiences. critics and readers 'quality as the "Canadian Boat Song;
alike; and the interest inspired by the and, soma years ago,a well-known Can -
haunting beauty of its lines has been en- I adorn writer hoz erdethe conjecture that
hanced by the mystery surrounding its the distinction belonged to Vicar -General
authorship. It has been the subject of Macdonald of Toronto.
completed his arrange- '
No one can read the "Canadian Boat stents with the Canada Company to un -
or bear -it recited without feeling dertake the colonization the Huron
the Inc strain in it, tho: at peculiar pen- tract, and the "doctor" was persuaded to
siveness and perfervid sentiment so charac- oin the staff that w•as_pprreparing to leave
teristic of the Highland lament. �or Up{xr Canada. "The Tiger. as you
Listen to me. as when ye heard our fatten �� beard," wrote Lockhart 10 the
Sing long ago the meg of other shores; Blackwood*, in August of that year, '.is
Listen to me. and tern m chorus gather going otherfshortty' t - Canada l0 hunt 11 be
All your dap voices as you pull your oar*: and fellow -creatures. This will '-
Fair them broad tweeds, these hoary woods are a relief to the Professor's (Wilson's) leers-
v,,,d ginatiexi. though to one, 1 assure it is
a sorrow.' A year Tater wet td his
DR. "TIGER" DUNLOP.
From the Drawing by Alachse. -Republished from The Canadian Magazine -
Dr. Dunlop, famous in connection with the early settlement of the Huron Tract,
was a writer of considerable tore, and Mr. Blue makes out a good case for the claim
that he was the author of the "Canadian Boat Song."
much research and not a little disputa-
tion; around it has gathered a literature a
which would till s vera) large-sized au
volumes. Ne
Curiously enough, this interest has
been so apparent in Canada, where i
might have been expected to be most
kern, as elsew here. In Canadian anthol
ngies, the song is conspicuous by its ab-
sence. and erre looks in vain for any ref
erence to it in the appreciations of ou
national literature that have appeared
from time to title. The reason probabl
is that, though Canadian in name and in
spirat.on, it has never been clearly proved
that the prem was Canadian in origin
The point is certainly open to doubt, and
may never be satisfactorily determined
but. at any rate. there is a considerable
body of evidence to support the claim,
and it mas• not b • amiss to consider
whether, in the confusion of theories con-
cerning the authorship, the true key to
the mystert has not been overlooked.
A notable feature of Blackwood'' Maga-
zine in its early days was the • Noctes
Ambrosianae"-an interesting compound
of literary criticism, philosophical discus-
sion, political invective. poetry and
humor, to which Professor Wilson (Chris-
topher North', Lockhart, Hogg. the Et-
trick Shepherd. and other writers of les-
ser note contributed. it was in this sec-
tion of the magazine for September, 1.4211,
that the "Canadian Boat Song" fine ap-
peared. Though evidently regarded by
the "Note;" circle as of no ordinary
merit - the Shepherd (Hogg) describing
them as "most affecting' -the verses do
not appear to have attracted mere than end
passing attention. Like most periodical bon
effusions, they were read, no doubt ap- of
preciatively, and forgotten; and it was
not until twenty years later that some-
one found them of sufficient interest to
But the view which has found most
cceptance is that John Galt was the
thor. Favored by such good judges as
Munro, the Scottish novelist; T.
not
Newbrggu� the author of a volume en- nen Part
t titled "T}e Canadian Boat Song and happened to be cast. The literary qual-
Otber Papers" and the Macke -reeds, it is ity of the author is likewise notable. Asa
based chiefly on the grounds that Galt narrator of events he is graphic and
was for several years a resident in Can- amusing, the air of hood humor. which
. ads, that in 1827 he was rowed down the marks the work, being everywhere ap-
r St. Lawrence on his way to Quebec, and parent." But his severance from the
that, as a well -know -n contributor to Ureter). circles of Edinburgh and London,
y Blackwo d's Magazine, he was probably a love of adventure and good fellowship
. the "friend" and correspondent in Upper rather than of letters, a jovial and undis-
Canada referred to in the "Noctes" ciplined nature. and years of strenuous
work in the forest wilderness, restricted
the use of his pen, and literature was t.o
him little more than a diversion. "Same
authors write for fame," he 'declared in
his book of "Statistical Sketches of Upper
Canada," "Some for money, some far
spite, some at the instigation of their
friends, and not a few at the instigation of
the devil. I have no one of these ex-
cuses to plead in apology for intruding
myself on the public; for my mative,
which has at least the merit of novelty to
recienmend it. is sheer laziness!" -by
which paradoxical but characteristic pro-
nouncement he meant that, having re-
ceived numerous letters from intending
emigrants seeking information about Up-
per Canada, he thought it would save
time and trou5le to embady the informa-
tion in a book instead of answering the
ni•tire-s individually.
The :first gimp c we hive or D.intop is
as a . ne.::ut ars ue lou_ truly
heroic figure in the War 01 1812-14. At-
taehcd as an assistant surgeon to the 8:)th
Regiment, composd of "wild tremen-
dous Irishmen," he presented the ap
pearance of a raw, red -treaded giant who,
as Col. Fitzgibbons pictured him, had
outgrown his clothes. The sleeves of his
coat reached but a short way below his
� elbows, and his trousers did trot nearly
reach his ankles. He was careless, if not
slovenly in his dress, and he seldom ap-
plied the razor to his chin. His propor-
tions w ve alm tit herculean; his move
ments and gait awkward and ungsioly."
But though a freak outwardly, the doc-
tor
was a real hem when it came to fight• Ii
ing, and, in several enggaaggements played a
part that is all too na,theatly concealed in
his "Recollections" of the campaign.
Returning to England, with his regi-
ment, at the close of the war. only to
miss sharing the glory of Waterkxo, he
was subsequentlydrafted to India. where
he distinguished himself as a newspaper
editors ttger•hunter, earning. by his ex-
plena in the latter capacity, the sobriquet
which dung to him through fife. it was
the storyof his !Wien experiences. writ-
ten for Blackwood's Magasine on his re-
turn toEcotland in the early twetritaes••
But we arc rides from our father's land.
Whoever wrote the sonname figuring in the "Nodes Ambrcei
with these a g beginning 'lane" as Lord Warden of Woods and
appealing lines was undoubt. Fq(este with a complimentary reference
edly one whose blood was strong, and
whose heart was Highland; and William
UDunlop, ough of Lowland birth, was a
typical Celt, a descendant of tbe
lairds of I�eppoch, and a Gael in spirit,
temperament and physiqueWith the pendence. and the utt
to abilities as a contributor to the
magazine. 1
Of his work in the Huron district, it is
needless to speak. He himself has de-
scnbed the ecstacy, "the Arab -like inde-
language of Osman he wasquite familiar; advantagesrrestrictions 1coqtempfor the
and of civilize -
among the meet of Glengarry, to whom tionwhich he felt when he donned the I
reference is made in he "Nodes," he blanket coat and aowahoes, and camper}
had many friends: and in the company of in the woods; and it would be superfhtocrs 1
Mehl
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g boatmen chanting Gaelic d t to add t hat has al cad bee
t- o w• y q so well
ties, none could be more at home than he. I written of the part he played in the de -
for he loved a song and• unlike the staid veloprtent of what is today one of Inc
and stately Galt, could sing one too. As most prosperous communities in Ontario.
a matter of fact, it was he who &mom- It is sufficient for the purposes of this
parried the novelist on his trip to Quebec article to note that in the midst of his
in 1827, when, according to the latter'. "Caesarian operations in the woods," as
Autobiography, he was imareased by the Galt described them, Dunlop's pen was
"singing boatmen -a race Last disappear. I not idle. Reports concerning conditions
ing; and it was he who, when a comedy I in Upper Canada had to be prepared for
of Galt's was performed in that city, the Company, together with p h�ets
played, with an ex«l:ence commented in. containing information and advtoe" for the
on by the author, the part of the High- settlers; and these were supplemented by
land Chieftain, which, there is reasongto magazine articles on Canadian life, which
believe, was his own contribution to the d d more to attract emigrants from Bri-
piece. But the pant of chief impor- tain than any other literature of the time.
tante is that the "Tiger- was not only a "It had been said," writes one authority,'
contributor to Blackwood's Magazine but "that no man had a great -'r talent for
a warm personal friend of both Lockhart throwing an air of romance over the stern
and "Cltnatoplist North," and a resident realities of settlement founding than had
in Upper Canada at the time the "Cana- Galt; that, with his genius and spirit, re -
dean Boat Soag" appeared. ality seemed to be a romance. But it
Dunlop was, in many ways, a remark- was reserved for the pen of the 'Back -
able character, whs,•bad he applied him. woodsman' (the room de plume used by
self seriously to literatthe, might have Dunlop far his sketches to Blackwood's), to
taken a high place the writers of put upon paper an accurate, even if some -
his tithe. s •'ice iculeoaluns," as times a higher -colored, account of life as
Christopher North styled thorn, were he found It, a popular statement of the
amongst the meet acceptable eontribu- resources and appearance of the Tract,
tions to Blackwood's and Fraser's Maga- and a list of minute dire. tions as to the
Moe; and as Dr. Colquhourt, in his admir- modus operandi necessary in transferring
able preface to the hook. says: "No one families, capita/ and brains, energy and
can read his (Dunlop's) 'dtecoflections of industry from one hemisphere to the
the American War' without perceiving of her '
that they bear the impress of a man of That Dunlop was in communication
part's, possessed ee a bold and resolute with the Blackwood "set" at or about
spirit, and sure to playa prominent the time the "Canadian Boat Song" apo
in whatever sphere of action his lot is petered can hardly be doubted His cor�-
tributions to the magazine, invariabl-
. paragraph accompanying the song. As of
further significance, it has been pointed
• out that in th- same issue of the maga-
zine there appeared an article by Galt
dealing with Canada..•,
These circumstances would seem to es-
tablish a pretty strong case for the auth-
or of "The Annals of the Parish" and the
founder of Guel o; but, if Inc explanation
by the writer of "Noctes'' article, as to
how the verses came into his possession,
is to be taken literally, they are by no
means conclusive. Here is the statement,
with "North" as interlocutor: "Canada;
why it is as Scoas Lochaber; what
ever of it is not French, I mean. Even
'omitting our friend John Galt. have we
not one Bishop MacDonell for the Papists.
one Archdeacon Strachan for the Epis-
copalians, and one Tiger Dunlop for the
Presbyterians. By the by, I have a letter
this morning from a friend of mine in
Upper Canada. He was rowed down the
St. Lawrence lately, ,for several days on
. by a strapping set of fellows, all
n in the country, and yet hardly one
them could speak a word of any
tongue but the Gaelic. They sang heaps
of our old Highland oar -songs, he says•
capitallywell, in the true Hebridean
ion: anthey' had others of their
Gaelic, too, some of which my friend
ed down, both words and music. He
me a translation of one of the
es." And then follows the "Can -
when Boat Song," with the 'Shepherd's"
comment: "Heah me! this is most alTectin'
now.''
!Whether or not, any significance can he
attached to the words: "Even omitting
. our friend John Galt," it is at all ev-
enta certain that that worthy writer had
no speaking acquaintance with Gaelic
and, therefore, could not have "noted
down" or translated the words of a wing
in that language. Nor is it known that
among his many gifts a knowledge of
is was included. so that he could
and
warrant their republication m sli htit (ash
alt ered form, in the pages of Tait's Maga- ow•n
zine. a rival Edinburgh publication, rxot
*here, on the authority d one Donald sent
Campbell. they were attributed to the dirt'
twelfth Earl of Eglinton. Thus repro-
duced, they caught the keen eye of Dr.
Norman MfacLeod, the well-known High-
land divine and author, who was prob-
ably the first to quote the now familiar
stanza beginning "From the lone shell-
ing.'' In later ears. it' v►�s repeated by.
among others. N ilIiam iitack, the novel •
iat, and Robert Louis Stevereen; and
tom, in hells came its recital by Mr.
1 Chamberlain, as the result of
whit the song acquired the popularity it
has since enjoyed. 1t should be pointed . mus
out. however. that the quatrain anted
r. Chamberlain, and generally re-
cited. differs materially from the origi-
nal version; the latter. as it appeared in
the "Noctes," having read:
scarcely have transposed the air. But the
mat da testimoxty againot the
claim set upon is behalf is to be- found
in the fact, which all his supporters have
sin Warty overlooked, that, if tete tetter
;enclnaing the song was received, an stated
From the lone shiefrng of t he misty ,dated, by the °Nodes' writer, •'cella g
from a friend o/ mine in U Ca
I moxgtn
Mnuatatns divide ui and the rases of race, gaper nada
Yet still the blood t. strong, the heart n High-
land.
And wemdrea,rei hehold the Hebrides.
Speculation as to the authorship of the
sang has been ingenious. twit more or
less indefinite The claim that it was the
work of the Earl of Eglinton, band
chiefly on the therm try among his lord -
it cnuttd not have been sent by Gatt, for
Ithe sianple reason that, at the time the
verses appeared,he war not in t Tpper Can-
ada. but in England. Thus we find
Lockhart writing frn1A London to the
Rlackwonds on June lkh, 1820: "Here
it (:alt as large as life and as pompons as
iever, full of title ages and connecting
that introduced him to the "Nodes"
circle, who welcomed him as a spirit after
their own hearts. Ile joined in their am-
brosial revile, regaling there with nodes
that set the table in Gnaw; wrote sketches
trader the signature of "Colin Bannatyne, I
R. N.," and startled the grave proles-
sant of Fdinhurgh University h deliver- 1
Inca g gq{trse oglitf on juris-
Part
nielthrs of tin -Cts.: karnint, w a
squaws, aero, I am saence, blended with rough jokes and
anonymous. were frequent, and it is not
1 without significance that in the "Nodes
prelude to the poem his name is men-
tioned in direct conjunction with the al-
lusion to "a letter from a friend of mine
in Upper Canada." It is true that he
was not known as a poet, but neither was
Gait, nor Lockhart, nor Eglinton
Among his literary friends he was noted
more for the '•wild luxuriance of his anec-
dotes" and "the Titanic bray 01 his
laughter" than for romantic rhymes or
rhapsodies. Indeed, nothing amid be
less suggestive of a pens ve pot t than the
picture drawn of him by his convivial
companion 01 the Edinburgh and Lon -
anon days -the brilliant but erratic Ma-
QQmn , the original of 'R►ackeray'a Captain
Shartdon. "This remarkable biped,"
wrote that wild Irishman in Fraser's
Magazine, "stands six feet three inches,
measures two feet across the shoulders.
lightsamely drops in his lordly back;
the cal( is just twenty Inches in cirruunr-
ference-ex pede Hercukrn; the paw
would have startled An Pasha; the fur is
01 the genuine Cikdc.iaa redness and
roughness; and the hide. (rrxn long ex-
posure to Eurus and Berea* has acquired
such a texture that he shaves with a
brickbat!" And when the "Tiger" re-
visited his former London haunts some
soars later, and was admitted to the
select
Weds of the "Era aliens." the same
facetious writer described hi,n in ev n
more extravagant terms, likening him to
"a red and fiery roaring volcano, whose
eruptions in the editor's salctu n had a
moat disturbing effect. Eccentric he was
in both appearance and manner, but when
someone suggested to Galt that the
worthy doctor was "a compound of a
bear and a gentleman." the novelist res-
tarted, "i did not know that bears were
as natured."
Beneath the rough evtercor and boist-
erous wit there lay concealed a vein of
sentiment and a tenderness of feeling that
nailed but tbe occasion to find expres-
sion. •'Those who enpyed the friend-
ship of this warm-hearted man." wrote
Major Strickland, "had frequent op-
pertuwties of knowing his kind and feel-
ing disposition; for there never was a liner
jewel, though roughly set, than poor Ditp-
lop " Himself an rule from the land of
his fathers. and the snide, philosopher
and friend of many imm»yants, he knew
better than most the 'Tint of the men
"from the lone shelling of the misty
island," understoyd their longings, and
shared with them the feeling expressed in
the lines:
When our Mood t,rrlred u tM time 1, ng rapt
wired,
Conquered and ketitied the keep:
No neer foretold Ow* ,h,idren could tee Ma-
i.ped,
That • degenerate lad m.g,t boast hisshsep.
Suggestive too are the allusions in the
song to the fighting atnrit of the clans-
men, (odtlisown • b.00d kindred" had "in
arm* aroubd the chieftain's banner' ral-
lied, and "conquered and fortified the
keep;' while he himself had proved a
worthy descendant of those '•Mi
kartsfenntinued onPage 8.1
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