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Story of a Small Scotch.
The
HOW A VAST INDUSTRY HAS BEEN ORGANISED.
THE ROMANCE OF
WALKER.
BY DELL LEIGH
JOHNNIE
bringing at the same time astonish was going to show a poor boob of Englishman what the real ment and delight to the heart of an the consignee, and quite probably stuff" meant, and it is always with fatura
business to the senderita quiet, gratification that a High- Morouver, at that time the hated lander does that,
Customs officers had not. woke up Whisky men have mapa of Scot to the possibilities of rolls of garland with little red dots scattered pot, which made the matter even about on them Eaoh' red dot de- more amusing for all parties to the notes a distillery, I had been We had studying such a map. Christmas contract.
When a fow Christmasees had pushed on, avor northward, and passed in this highly satisfactory had passed Aberdeen. The anaky manner, John Walker found him- black line of railway on my map: self becoming the recipient of a meanders towards a musg of little humorous sad increasing number red dots; this country is alive with of letters from drinkers of his ro- distilleries. (Of course, my dear persistently inquisitive A natural deference for a highly sailed Whisky, applying to him chap, this is Banffshire, Speyside. Bra precludes the direct for a further bottle or two where some of the best of it comes writer, groping for facts wherewith rospectable to embroider his tale, probes bored writer from dilating unduly upon of that which "Messrs. So-and-So from." He waved a hand towards bus patient men's minds in the so indelicate a subject as the illicit sent mo." This gave him furiously the horizon which slid past our search for the origin of Whisky. He stills of Beotland in the good old to think. And there is no doubt windows, and I observed tall chim- falls. Highlanders whose great days; especially in view of the fact whatever that it made Mrs. Johnney stacks poking up somewhat great-grandfathers wore deeply if that Johu. Walker & Sons shelter Walker think, too; for he discussed furtively from the deapa of the not altogether legally, involved in at the moment an army of Excise all his business affairs with bis most glons in all directions: Past tink the Whisky Trade do not know officers beneath their roofs. It is able wife. So many a good busi ling trout streams we journeyed, Encyclopædiag and ponderous refer sufficiant, therefore, to say, and it ness man of to-day has discussions round the edges of vast brown anas tores tactfully evade all man-is an interesting fact, that smug of a similar nature with his wife moors which stretched away into tion of its derivation They just gling in Scotland became in the and admits it gratefully if he in their dim violet spaces, alongside end a matter of the survival of the worth the salt ghe orders for him a rushing river at one moment, the don't know....
Attest. Those who did it orudelythat we can safely short-circuit salmon teeming Spey beneath the Scotland had, and still has, some under difficulties, and with their the protracted arguments and as shoulder of a granite-brown hill ryes apprehensively on the horizon, sertions and counter-proposals that the next; up up the gorgeously thing that no foreign country, were able only to produce the hot, followed between them (we know rich, sharp Highland air Alling
Water sessed-Highland water.
raw, unpalatable atuff. Whereas this verbal field of battle well), and our lungs and titillating our appe- which came, not necessarily from those who came out into the open come to the point where John Wal sites; and when, wo loaned out of the the heavens at all they said and took pains, honoured the King ker, grocer, became also. John windows at little stations and
talking Garlic, thors did, but which extended from and paid the duty, proceeded not Walker, Whisky distiller and bien-heard men granite formations and passed over poet (heaven be praised) and was only from strength to strength of dar, of Kilmernock. And here we realised we had left the ordinary very pure, free from all miners Whisky, but grow afluent in sub- have reached the original threshold commercial world far behind. contamination, more delectable and stance and became envied of all of one of the world's most famous men. Of such was John Walker in the year 1890.
"Highland Wator.
firma".
- Pride of Production. And here wo are at last in a typical Highland fastness. A do. certainly more suited to the distill.
A Highland Fantzom,~-
mura little town, trim, decorous, ing of usquedaukh than any other water in all the world. Green, men
A Man and HL WUS.
From this picture of little begin self-satisfed; and 7,000 gallons of ware made lust have arisen at various times to chal-
Most mon who drink and appro- nings, from a seed, sowa a hundredthe right stuff" longe, this fact. They have moraly beaten the air with their clamour-ciate good Whisky have a kindly years ago, tura now to present-week in that cluster of grey-stone, ings. It made no difference. High-fellow feeling for a sportsman. So, day plant, only one of many such, buildings we are approahing. This land water, and that only makes therefore, all who hear or read of which flourishes in the Highland is one of the important distilleries
Whisky. And am Scotch
the the doings of John Walker, sports country and from which Johanie of the Walker sources of supply;" habitable globe clamours for in man and gentleman, of Kilmar-Walker draws sustenance. The old here, one of the most valuable and creasing nd unfailing supplies of nock, will like bim and will respectamugglers knew the best apots high-grade of the blending Whis the corner, as it were. Nameless I it, refusing to be fobbed off with his wife, who loomed largely, and whereon to erect their stilis. All kics is distilled; the head stone of substitutes, further argument would to her credit, in all his enterprises the most famous makes of Whisky seem to be merely waste of time. The portrait of this gallant gentle are situated hard by these sites prefer that it should be, because of And every true Scotsman, loathes man in his red coat, top boots and to-day. Often they will point out those others scattered about Scot- furry tall has is almost a national to you, the ruins of an ancient land, all housing those kindly, waste...
emblem to-day. Kilmarnock, Ayr- bothie in close proximity to a place earnest men, all contributing their a shire, in those days was not a where Johnnie Walker is being quote to the delectable whole; nad Whisky cantre at all. It confined distilled. Towards one of these what manner" of man is it who can itself almost entirely to the pro- famous old distilleries. a Walker say who desired even to suggest pagation of a much less exciting man and I journoyed together, that one Highland source is "bot. characteristic, however, trade, the manufacture of carpets. sitting for long hours in north- ter than its neighbotir 1 Now John Walker kept a grocer's bound trains. I, rather desponsame shop in the main street of Kilmar dent, because we were leaving the stamps them all-an intense pride. nock; and he retailed wines and classic golf courses of Prestwick of production inherited from their and Troon behind us, They lie a grandfathers, who were all in the spirits as a good grocer should.
To him, round about Christmas porpetual menace to the industry business. This pride is the more time, would come men with whom of the Kilmarnock men who live noticeable when a laconic Scotsman he did business, desirous of pur-round and about them, and to me shows" an innocent his work, and two of they continued to beckon invitingly the meaning and the subtlety and chasing bottle or
spesial" Whisky. Not for home to come and have yet another cut the guile of it. He says so little. consumption, but to placate and to at them with this Walker man, who But it sits at the back of his eyes encourage clients elsewhere, main played on them so knowingly, all the time and you become in- ly overseas. Carpet samples, as placidly and victoriously. He was fected with his unspoken zeal everyone knows, are rolled round anything but despondent, for he Zoal! It is more than that. It. is circular pieces of wood, But, as was going to his Highland home a faith, from which nothing can everyone did not know,, jars of which lay literally alongside ono shake hit-Phe Wine Trade Re-
of the distilleries. Moreover, he view. Whisky serve the same purpose,
With the life-giving recipe in their minds and the water in their fastnesses, the Highlanders became very busy. They were up to their eyes in the work of making Whisky in Scotland in the fourteenth can tury. So Busy, in fact, did they become, that the Government, in 1579, scenting revenue, began to get busy, too. And then followed an exhilarating period of catch-as catch can between the secrative Highlander and the exigent law, That the authorities had a tough task may be gauged from the fact that as late as 1760 nearly half a million gallons were smuggled into England from Scotland during that year; and it was only with the greatest difficulty and danger that the spirit-revenue could be coffected
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