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1926
That Le teaching of the Scottish dialect "enly one, to my knowledge, has risen to our children should be regarded as to the dignity of being an elder of the
kirk, and I am glad to see that be w necessary to its preservation, indicates the precarious position into which it has here to ask the Blessing for our dinner
to-night." fallen. A-generation in arising that
Sir Robert remarked having met as knows little or nothing of the language odd times the journalist of irritating of Robert Burns and of those other posts omniscience who reminded him of the nafortunately few, who have successfully old gentleman and the young fellow in made the homely, expressive Scots the vehicle of their emotions..
a train. On many topics the youngster language begins to die. its dissolution At last his older said, "Young man, I spoke with dogmatic opinionativeness. may be postponed, but cannot easily be think that between us we know every- averted. That appears to be the position thing." "You think soaked the of the Dorie" in Scotland at the pre-young man. Fea.. You know every-
Whan
LORD DEAR'S STORY OF SIR MARRY.
THE PRINCE, EARL OF CARRICE.
HUNTING IN SNOW BLIZZARDS,
[ROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
EDINBURGE, March 17th. The Prince of Wales, or rather, the Earl of Carrick, as they call him in the West Country, received some wonderful demonstrations of loyalty on the occasion of his visit to the ancient home of his family in Ayrshire. Only one thing marred his crowded day of engagements sent time. Efforts to keep it alive should thing except that you are a dammed fool -a series of blizzards of snow and sleep be encouraged efforts in which Burns-and I know that! The Prince's worst experience was during take part even though futility may ap Clubs have now bestirred themselves to
a three-hours' run- with the Eglinton
pear to be writ large all over them. It Hunt over several miles of fine hunting is in the homes of the people that the country in the vicinity of Ladykirk, chief cause of the decay of the vernacular Three foxes were hungel but they all is to be found. Many parents frown went to earth. At least, the lid. The upon Scottish words and, expressions; fate of the third is uncertain, as Fernard these are "vulgar" and not such as are and the bounds went off on their own infused in polite company. Their children the blizzard, and the hunt came to an grow up knowing nothing of the genial, abrupt termination. The hunt dispers forcible dialect that was used by their ed, appropriately enough, at Fail Toll. torebears. English, -couras, must now The Prince had one of his happy be the predominant tongue in this coun- inspirations during the visit Burns' try, and it is to English that teachers Cottage had received no place in the should devote attention in the first place. official programme; but at his special re- But it is also fitting that they should quest time was found for a visit to the find at least a small place in the curricu shrine. Nothing could possibly have lum for the vernacular and its literature. given the Scottish, and especially the This seems to be the only way to prevent Ayrshire people, more pleasure than this its eventually becoming as a foreign or simple homage to the National Bard on & dead language. the part of the heir to the Throne. An- other personal touch may be goted. In the cottage an umbrella stand of modern maks caught the Prince's eye, and drew from him the whimsical observation, Burns would not have had much use for that in his day."
THE MISERIES OF A BLIZZARD
Everyone who knows what it is to ride in the wind and wet must have been heartily sorry for the Prince of Wales when he hunted through an Ayrshire blizzard During the war, while the foot blogger envied the mounted man in fine weather, the latter would gladly have changed places with the former when it was necessary to trek through rafn, or snow. Cavalry-men and mound gars ners learned while marching in Flanders during the winter what cruel pain conld be caused by toes chilled against the metal of stirrups. If the rider dis monated and walked for a spell to warm himself his saddle was soon soaked, and
few seats are more uncomfortable than a saddle cold and wet! One gunter officer still remembers, as a climax of discomfort, a march out of the village of Bray. It began before dawn, so that the unit might be over the hill behind the village which was ander German observation before daylight; it was car ried out with the depressing accompani ment of a Bank wind; bitterly cold, whirling rain in fearly horizontal sheets, and it ended in a "waggon line" fetlock deep in water. In such circumstances. there is precious little of the ** gay- cavaljer" about the mounted men-at-
arma!
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FUTURE OF ECOTS FOOTBALL,
The almost continuous procession of Scottish footballers across the Border this winter is creating a feeling of dis- may among our sporting friends, who see in the process the beginning of the eclipse of the soccer game on the North of the Tweed Mr. Crosland would have viewed the movement from the other standpoint. The mere fact that England was importing Scotsmen to its playing fields would have filled him with disgust, and conclusively proved that the game. in his country was in the last stages of decay. Of course, the pretty tribute to our footballers would not have appealed to him at ah. But the tribute can be so pretty as to be almost ruinous to the game as a game, and that is what our sporting friends here fear. Keen fol- lowers of the game declare that the quality of the play has deteriorated this year, and that the migration of players is largely the cause. English Clubs with big drawing power in the populated players, and for twenty of the Scotsmer areas are able to pay big prices for good.
must have paid something like £50,000. whom they have transferred this year We have never professed to understand a sport that can give Preston or New.. castle football glory, with teams, of Scottish natives. But each are the rules,
we are assured.
nationality in individual Clubs. Some day we may be called upon to retrieve the position of Scottish football with teams of Hottentots and Malayans, and then we shall have a fiue case under the Safe- guarding of Industries Act. Meanwhile. the traficking in players continues, and football legislators will soon have to look! into the matter if the game is to retain its popularity in Scotland.
There is no bar to
Just to Bards another branch of sport. The pas eager list of the Anchor line Caledonia, which sailed from Glasga on Saturday for New York, contained the names of ten golf professionals drawn from North Berwick, Frestwick, Menifieth, and Barry Links, who are emigrating to take up duties with various clubs in Canada and the United States.
rub the same point in a re-
Calzean Castle, in Ayrshire, which the Prince of Wales visited, has been much mispronounced during the week. The trus sound is Cullane," with no hint of the z which, as a matter of elymolo gical fact,
bas no right to be there. It is the same misleading letter which ap. pears in such names as Menzies, Dalziel, and Cadzona-relie of the old symbol for the letter y... which somewhat resem bled an elongated figure 3. and which, in writing, came to be confused with Nowadays, of course, even the owners of the names have had to acquiesce in the universal mispronunciation. Is there
Sir Robert Horna was in genial wood Mackenzie alive, who can say, as Lord at the Institute of Journalists dinner Kames did in the middle of the eighat Glasgow to which he brought quite a teenth century that to hear Mackenzie wallet of stories and reminiscences. He pronounced with
recalled that his only incursions into journalism had been at Gilmorell,--that is, at Glasgow University. There he John Kintren Grant, sometime of edited a University magazine along with Hongkong, and late of Colorado, native of Scotland, has left £20,236.:{
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other students who also considered them- selves editors of lively importance." He pictured the scene on the night of going- to press when all the "editors' were How far should the teaching of the making certain that their own particular vernacular be carried in Scottish schools1 fulminations on politica would : receive The question is raised in one of the re casential prominence.
ell that ports of His Majesty's Chief Inspectors..bright band of brothers," he remarked,
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Lord Dewar tells this story of the only really Scottish present he had ever givea it came back to him. His friend, Sir Harry Lauder, covated some homing! pigeons on his Sussex estate.
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(Continued on next column.)
Ob, write it up as & gag and call in "Scotsman's Generosity," "replici Lord Dewar, and he did.
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