daughter
of six years old at the time; when she was quite an old lady she told
Sir Walter Scott that she remembered being carried out of the house in
the arms of a Highland officer. She begged him to point out the
_Pretender_ to her. This he consented to do, after the little girl had
solemnly promised always to call him the _Prince_ in future.

[Illustration: 'The Prince caught him by the hair']

An army which had been on the road continuously for more than two winter
months, generally presents a sufficiently dilapidated appearance; still
more must this have been the case with the Highland army, ill-clad and
ill-shod to begin with. The soldiers--hardly more than 4,000 now--who on
Christmas day marched into Glasgow, had scarcely a whole pair of boots
or a complete suit of tartans among them. This rich and important town
was even more hostile than Dumfries to the Jacobites, but it was
necessity more than revenge that forced the Prince to levy a heavy sum
on the citizens, and exact besides 12,000 shirts, 6,000 pairs of
stockings, and 6,000 pairs of shoes.

At Stirling, whither the Prince next led his army, the prospects were
much brighter. Here he was joined by the men raised in Aberdeenshire
under Lord Lewis Gordon, Lord Strathallan's Perthshire regiment, and the
French troops under Lord John Drummond. The whole number of his army
must have amounted to not much less than 9,000 men.

The Duke of Cumberland had given up the pursuit of the Highland army
after Carlisle; an alarm of a French invasion having sent him hurrying
back to London. In his stead General Hawley had been sent down to
Scotland and was now in Edinburgh at the head of 8,000 men. He was an
officer trained in the Duke of Cumberland's school, severe to his
soldiers and relentlessly cruel to his enemies. A vain and boastful man,
he looked with contempt on the Highland army, in spite of the experience
of General Cope. On the 16th he marched out of Edinburgh with all his
men, anticipating an easy victory. Lord George Murray was at Linlithgow,
and slowly retreated before the enemy, but not before he had obtained
full information of their numbers and movements. On the nights of
January 15 and 16, the two armies lay only seven miles apart, the
Prince's at Bannockburn and General Hawley's at Falkirk. From the one
camp the lights of the other were visible. The Highland army kept on the
alert, expecting every hour to be attacked.

All the day of the 16th they wait