The Heart of Scotland

Оглавление

A. R. Hope Moncrieff. The Heart of Scotland

The Heart of Scotland

Table of Contents

Preface

THE HEART OF SCOTLAND

I. PERTHSHIRE

II. TAYSIDE

III. ATHOLL

IV. BREADALBANE

V. STRATHEARN

VI. THE MACGREGORS

VII. ROB ROY AND HIS SONS

VIII. MENTEITH

Отрывок из книги

A. R. Hope Moncrieff

Published by Good Press, 2021

.....

example familiar to me from the pages of—was it not?—Midshipman Easy.

The excitement that followed seemed a godsend to youngsters, and perhaps to older captives of the dull Sabbath. But, as usual, rumour exaggerated. There had been a conspiracy to break prison, which, in the case of the men, proved a fiasco; while the women, after throwing their Bibles at the chaplain as signal of revolt, got loose into a yard, but failed either to make their escape from the walls or to release the men, as had been plotted. These incidents I state with reserve, after the example of the Father of History in dealing with facts beyond his own observation. The story that passed current was that our gallant centurion reached the scene of action in hot haste, but on beholding the enemy he marched off in high dudgeon, flatly refusing to lead his company against a mob of women. In the end, we understood, those Bacchanals were quelled by the artillery of the Fire Brigade.

.....