HLI Chronicle 1910 - The Royal Highland Fusiliers

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HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY CHRONICLE. 121 civilians) is like the end 0' the close season for groose, when a'body flees awa', when the laMes and corpr'ls cbases the plivates, and tbe sairgeants chases the corpr'ls, and the officers, especially the wee yins, chases the -sairgeants, and tbe cornel sits on his horse and sweers, an' chases them a'ways at wanst ; then the gen'ral comes, very polite, and says, "Very good, Kornel; fine regiment; weel -set-up men!" Weel, when this wis a' by, the summer came roond, and then some wis for the hills, and some w1'sna. We three, of coorse, bein' young soldiers, an' delikit like (" d'ye mind, Jock, in Almada Street ") wis among the wis's, and Sandy wis fair wild wi' the thocht 0' whit he wis gaun tae dae in the shootin' line. Jock bocht a gun frae the sairgent 0' number one section, wi' one 0' the remittances frae his brother in Ameriky; and Sandy rolled up wi' a gun tae, but it wis olaimed, so we jist had the yin gun; and when I wis in at the R.A.T.A. gettin' a read at the paper I seed an advertizement about some 0' they patent bullets for shot-guns; so we b ad some of them from Calcutta. Weel, when we had been in the hills for about a fortllicht we begun tae think aboot a pass. Captain X, that wis in chairge 0' oor section, wis for making a deeficulty aboot lettin' us away thegither, mindin' some sma' disturbance in the Bazaar that we wis on the mat for. (No that I'm sayin' ocht against the Captain. D'ye mind yon time he-but tbat has naething tae dae wi' this.) Onyways, we got oor pass for three days. " Noo," says Jock, " for the commissariat." Jock wis for the simple life-a bottle 0' tangle-foot apiece, an' lh,in' on the country. Butme aa' Sandy wisna for ony debauches; so, to do the thing in style, we had tinned salmon, an' oatmeal, an' biscuits, an' jist yin wee bottle, an' a wee black wean to cook for us, as we would be too busy-shootin' tigers-for cookin'. They a' went in a box, an' the wee cook carried it. Sandy said he kenned 0' a grand place for bears, an' the column wis jist movin' off when anither monkey-faced man comes np. The wee cook ca'ed him a shikarrry, an' speered did we want him. I says, "Whit's yer wages" and he says "Eight annas a day." Jook, who is aye fond 0' airin' his foreign languages, up all' tell't him to away and jaw hisse1' ! Hooiver, the wee cook said a shikarry wis verra important, so we jist agreed, meanin' tae pay him hauf. That's the way to tIeat they blackies when they try to come it on blokes! That's experience. So we a' set off, the wee cook an' the wee box in front, weel watched, and in the evenin' arrived at 001' camp. Next mornin' the monkey-faced man says" Ootow !" an' it wisna long afore we wis on the war-path. Sandy said we must draw for fhst shot. Sandy won. (It wis him that wis holdin' the straws, tho', min' ye, A'm no castin' ony aspersions on Sandy.) I wis second, an' poor Jock wis last, which didna improve his temper, which wis fille-like, ower some dispute aboot whisky for breakfast. Aifter a wee while the monkey shikari man goes on a wee, for scoutin', and Sandy led the main body. By an' by he suddenly clappit doon, and wis angry wi' me an' Jock for bern' too slow. " See that! " says he, and fires. We a' rin forrad, but it wis jist a black stump. That wis the first time Jock laughed. Sandy wis for haein' his turn again, but we soon teIled him No! Then the shikari came back, speerin' what wis up, so Sandy tell'd him he had wounded a wee bear. I think Sandy must hae made a mistake about the place, for we walkit up an' doon an' never saw a hait a' day. In the evenin', when we wis aboot done, the shikari says " Dekko! " and we dekko'd and seen a black beastie in a bush. So I fired, but there wis no answer from the butts. "Here," says Jock, "let me see the gun" ; an' wi' that he starts crawlin' to the beast on his hauns an' knees. A'm no sure aboot what exac'ly happened next, but there wis a roar-I'm no rightly sure from Jock or the beast. Onyways, Jock fired an' tumelled hisser, an' the beast,
122 HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY CHRONICLE. ------;------------------ the awfu'est great, black, wild, hairy grumphy boar, wis ower the tap 0' him. By this time we wis a' up trees, an' we neveI seen it again. Then we made back for camp. As soon as Jock seen the fire he roars "Whusky! whaur's that bottle" and when the wee cook tell't him it had fallen an' broke itsel', he up wi' his haun' to hit him a skelp; then me an' Sandy interfered, an' by the time the shine wis by the shikari and the wee cook were awa wi' the box, an' we never seen them again, neither. When we got back to barracks, three awfu' quiet-like men, the B.O. meets us, and says, " Ye're for the office! " . and so we wis, and had to pay a 1upee each for severely wounding a village pig, a common, dirty black soor, which wis jist what Jock ca'ed the shikari when he off'd wi' the grub. And that wis the end 0' oor shootin' expedition. WAAF. The National Character of the Scottish Regiments. (Oontinued from April Number.) PART n. SCOTS GREYS AND THE HIGHLAND REGIMENTS BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER THE RUSSIAN WAR. THE periods are-1854, before the war; 1856, in the Crimea, at the end of the war; 1857, in Great Britain, after the war. This information has been obtained from the Monthly Returns rendered by each Regiment to the War Department. SCOTS GREYS. Scots. English. Irish. Foreign. Total. 1st Jan., 1854, 258 67 20 0 345 1st Jan., 1856, 124 102 8 0 234 1st Jan., 1857, 311 148 17 4 480 RELIGIOS. A Pr.sbY. Episco. R. teria.n~. palians. Catholic.. 1st Jan., 1854, 258 82 5 1st Jan., 1856, 132 86 16 1st Jan., 1857, 460· 0 20 It will be seen by these figures that, previou!! to the Russian war, of 345 strong, only 87 were English and Irish, although the Regiment had then been absent ten years from Scotland. On proceeding to take part in the Russian war the Regiment was raised to the war complement by volunteers from various Regiments, which increased the number of English in the ranks. The numbers in 1856 show how the Regiment was reduced by service in the Crimea; in 1857, what it was after returning to this country, and sent to Ireland instead of Scotland. KILTED REGIMENTS. 42ND ROYAL HIGHLANDERS. Scat. Eng. hish. Total. 1st Jan., 1854, 840 10 6 856 1st Jan., 1856, 709 112 55 Depot in Scotland, 282 33 21 991 145 76 1212 *It is supposed that all the Protestants were then Itttending the Church of Scotland form of worship.
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