stream, Colonel Cameron's favourite piper was shot by his
side. Stooping from his saddle, Fassifern tried to rescue
the body of the man who had so often cheered the regiment to
victory, but in vain: the lifeless corpse was swept away by
the torrent. 'Alas!' cried the brave Cameron, dashing the
tears from his eyes, 'I would rather have lost twenty
grenadiers than you.'" Let us next turn to McDonald's
_Martial Music of Scotland_, and we read: "The bagpipes are
sacred to Scotland and speak a language which Scotchmen only
know, and inspire feelings which Scotchmen only feel. Need
it be told to how many fields of danger and victory the
warlike strains of the bagpipes have led? There is not a
battlefield that is honourable to Britain where their
war-blast has not sounded! When every other instrument has
been silenced by the confusion and the carnage of the scene,
the bagpipes have been borne into the thick of battle, and
many a devoted piper has sounded at once encouragement to
his clansmen and his own _coronach_!"

In the garb of old Gaul, with the fire of old Rome,
From the heath-covered mountains of Scotia we come;
Our loud-sounding pipe breathes the true martial strain,
And our hearts still the old Scottish valour retain.

We rested at the Alumbagh on the 26th of November, but early on the 27th
we understood something had gone wrong in our rear, because, as usual
with Sir Colin when he contemplated a forced march, we were served out
with three days' rations and double ammunition,--sixty rounds in our
pouches and sixty in our haversacks; and by two o'clock in the afternoon
the whole of the women and children, all the sick and wounded, in every
conceivable kind of conveyance, were in full retreat towards Cawnpore.
General Outram's Division being made up to four thousand men was left in
the Alumbagh to hold the enemy in check, and to show them that Lucknow
was not abandoned, while three thousand fighting men, to guard over two
thousand women and children, sick and wounded, commenced their march
southwards. So far as I can remember the Third and Fifth Punjab Infantry
formed the infantry of the advance-guard; the Ninth Lancers and Horse
Artillery supplied the flanking parties; while the rear guard, being the
post of honour, was given to the Ninety-Third, a troop of the Ninth
Lancers and Bourchier's light