Clan pipers—Chief’s retinue—At weddings—Pipers prohibited—In sorrow—At funerals—Queen Victoria’s funeral—To lighten labour—The harvest dance—The shepherd’s pipe—In church architecture—In church services— As a call to church—Ministers and the pipes—Falling into disrepute— “As proud as a piper”—Jealousy of the old masters—“As fou as a piper”—An Irish piper. CHAPTER XII.—THE BURGH PIPERS OF SCOTLAND, 168 Royal pipers—In France—At the English court—The Edinburgh Piper— Dumbarton—Biggar—Wigtown—Glenluce—Dumfries—Linlithgow—Aberdeen—Perth— Keith—Dalkeith—Dundee—Peebles—A weird story—Falkirk—“Gallowshiels” pipers’ combat—The Hasties of Jedburgh—Habbie Simson of Kilbarchan— Bridgeton—Neil Blane of Lanark—The Piper of Northumberland. CHAPTER XIII.—FROM THE SEAT OF THE SCORNER, 192 Poking fun at the pipes—English caricature—Mixed metaphor—Churchism and pipes—Fifteenth century satire—A biographical sneer—Thackeray—Bitter English writers—Testimony of a Jew—Home sarcasm—The bards—Joanna Baillie—A Frenchman’s opinion—William Black—Ignorance breaking its shins—Imported sportsmen—The duty of Highlanders. CHAPTER XIV.—THE HUMOUR OF THE PIPES, 205 _Punch’s_ joke—King Charles’s heads—An amusing competition—A Highlander’s Irishism—Wedding experiences—A piper’s fall—A resourceful piper—A Cameron piper and his officer—Lochaber no more—An elephant’s objection—Embarked in a tub—Glasgow street scene—Bad player’s strategy—What the wind did—A new kind of tripe—A Pasha and a piper—A Gordon nervous—A jealous piper—Dougal Mac Dougal’s downfall. CHAPTER XV.—DEMONIAC PIPES AND PIPERS, 223 Tam o’ Shanter—The Devil’s favourite instrument—“Sorcerers” burned—A bard’s satire—Glasgow Cathedral story—A Hebridean Tam o’ Shanter— Continental ideas—Reformation zeal—Ghostly pipers—A “changeling” piper—_The Lost Pibroch_—The Chisholm “enchanted” pipes—The Black Chanter of Clan Chattan. CHAPTER XVI.—PIPERS AND FAIRIES, 233 In fairies’ hillocks—Stories with a common origin—Sutherlandshire version—Away for a year—Harris piper and the fairies—Seven years away—Fairies helping pipers—Helping the Mac Crimmons—A boy piper—How the music went from Islay to Skye—Faust-like bargains—A Caithness story—A fairy piper. CHAPTER XVII.—PIPERS IN ENCHANTED CAVES, 247 Allied to fairy stories—Venturesome pipers—The Skye cave—The Mull version—The Argyllshire—The Ghostly piper of Dunderave—“Wandering Willie’s Tale”—A Sutherlandshire cave—A Caithness cave—Underground passages. CHAPTER XVIII.—THE HEREDITARY PIPERS, 257