A people with a phrase, “It is the custom,” can never be destroyed. A people with the phrase, “It is the fashion,” cannot be said to exist, for it has nothing of all it possesses that it can call its own. A people that can articulate such a phrase on the lips, has encouraged a power which, tyrannizing over heart and brain, rots the one and steals away the other. But has a people with the antiquity and the history of the Celts, and amongst the Celts of the Highlanders, no equivalent for Adet-dur? Yes, they have or had. “It was nature,” or “It was natural,” or “It was family,” the word signifying all these. With that word they would have kept their numbers, their customs, their kilts, and their swords. They would have still their songs and songsters. There was in that sentence a knot of life--a knot that no hands but their own could untie. The Spaniards, too, have a sentence of their own, _Cosas de España_. FOOTNOTES: [79] A lady, writing from the north of Scotland, thus speaks of the double invasion there of bonnets and poor:--“Bonnets have been the destruction of the Caithness servants: what they spend on these, and flowers and ribands (instead of the linsey-wolsey petticoat, cotton jacket, and snood), would keep their parents in meal for months; but, of course, now that there is a ‘legal assessment,’ what need they care or “scrimp” themselves, only to spare the parish.”--“She (an old woman of ninety-two) told me, that formerly there was more love among neighbours than now among brothers.” [80] The name of the cloak worn by the gentlemen, and of the plaid used by the peasants. [81] I have heard of another mantilla--de _Cacherula_--longer than the others, and like a scarf. [82] The word _Sarra_ is given in Aldevete: he renders it _princess_; also _Sarria_, Valencian for _net_. He derives both from the Hebrew. [83] “Quod nunc Tyrus dicitur olim Sarra vocabatur.”--_Scholiast on Virgil_. “Pœnos Sarra oriundos.”--ENNIUS. [84] “Mantilla de _Tiro_” may be from the same word. [85] The dance _Sarrabanda_, the saraband of our old writers, is, of course, nothing else but “Tyrian bounding.” [86] “In doors they wear _mules_, or shoes very low, the rest of the leg being naked; out of doors, and particularly in Andalusia, they wear drawers, long and very neatly folded, to exhibit a fine leg, for their garments only come down to half the leg. They are very particular about their feet, and they have shoes of thin Morocco, very soft, embroidered in silk of different colours. They have for bracelets large manacles of gold and silver, so weighty that those of gold are worth a hundred ducats. They have similar ones above the ankle, which are round, and thicker than the wrist.”--MARMOL’S _Africa_, vol. ii. p. 192. [87] The _alpargata_ is not strictly the sandal, for the sole is of untanned leather, or a thick texture of hemp. The sandal proper has been seen on Jews from the Atlas: it is still in use in Arabia and Ethiopia.