' Yes, dear,' said his aunt,' but nob quite like your kilts; they were shorter and made oub of plaided wool, and their stockings (which they called " trews") were plaided also—'

' Oh, I know,' said Harry. ' Willy Grant las Highland clothe 3 : and he has a white skin purse and a dagger, not a really dagger, just a make-believe dagger.' • But the Highlanders bad real daggers, dirka they called them, stuck in their belts. And they carried huge swords which they called claymores, and a round shield which they called a buckler.'

'Didn't they carry any guns?' asked Harry eagerly. ' I should think the other eoldiers would shoot them all dead before they could get up to cub with their swords.' 'Oh yos, they carried guns,' said Aunt Alice, laughing, ' bub they always threw their guns away.'

' Then what was the good of them ?' said ebrewd little Harry.
