 of present pay too well to incur the
risk of losing them in the Jacobite cause. His martial consort raised his clan,
and headed it in 1745. But the chief himself would have nothing to do with
king-making, declaring himself for that monarch, and no other, who gave the
Laird of Mac-- »half-a-guinea the day, and half-a-guinea the morn.«
 
43 In explanation of the military exercise observed at the Castle of
Glennaquoich, the author begs to remark, that the Highlanders were not only well
practised in the use of the broadsword, firelock, and most of the manly sports
and trials of strength, common throughout Scotland, but also used a peculiar
sort of drill, suited to their own dress and mode of warfare. There were, for
instance, different modes of disposing the plaid, - one when on a peaceful
journey, another when danger was apprehended; one way of enveloping themselves
in it when expecting undisturbed repose, and another which enabled them to start
up with sword and pistol in hand on the slightest alarm.
Previous to 1720, or thereabouts, the belted plaid was universally worn, in
which the portion which surrounded the middle of the wearer, and that which was
flung around his shoulders, were all of the same piece of tartan. In a desperate
onset, all was thrown away, and the clan charged bare beneath the doublet, save
for an artificial arrangement of the shirt, which, like that of the Irish, was
always ample, and for the sporran-mollach, or goat's-skin purse.
The manner of handling the pistol and dirk was also part of the Highland manual
exercise, which the author has seen gone through by men who had learned it in
their youth.
 
44 Pork or swine's flesh, in any shape, was, till of late years, much abominated
by the Scotch, nor is it yet a favourite food amongst them. King Jamie carried
this prejudice to England, and is known to have abhorred pork almost as much as
he did tobacco. Ben Jonson has recorded this peculiarity, where the gipsy in a
masque, examining the king's hand, says -
 
-- »You should, by this line,
Love a horse, and a hound, but no part of a swine.«
                                                      The Gipsies Metamorphosed.
 
James's own proposed banquet for the devil was a loin of pork and a poll of
ling, with a pipe of tobacco for digestion.
 
45 In the number of persons of all ranks who assembled at the same table, though
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