Tuque vale, gentis priscæ fortissime ductor, Ultime Scotorum, ac ultime Grame, vale!" THE BURIAL MARCH OF DUNDEE Sound the fife, and cry the slogan Let the pibroch shake the air With its wild triumphal music, Worthy of the freight we bear.

Those men of whom I have been speaking as the kind to fill the fife could all be light-hearted on occasion.

you'd better follow the fife and drum, or go before the mast, than give up your life to a profession you hate!

And often grasps her sword, and often eyes: Her crest a bough of Winter's bleakest pine, Strange "weeds" and alpine plants her helm entwine, And wildly-pausing oft she hangs aghast, While thrills the "Spartan fife" between the blast.

"Tootle-toot!" shrilled the fife.

[He takes his fife from his belt] No, the green!

Choose ye the softly-breathing-flute, The mellow horn, the loving lute; The viol you must not forget, And take the sprightly flageolet And grave bassoon; choose too the fife, Whose warblings in the tuneful strife, Mingling in mystery with the words, May seem like notes of blithest birds.

I iver tuk a hand infour-and-twenty privates an' a officer av the line in review ordher, an' not as much as wud dust a fife between 'em all in the way of clothin'."

Or, "Dere goes a thousand peoples to a goncertmaybe fife from dat thousand lofes de moosiclet dose fife gome to meand I play dem all day for noding!"

Now, in midsummer, when he was least to be expected, they suddenly hear his fife and drum.

At last, when the songs have been sung and the hundred rumors of the day discussed, at ten the intrusive drums and scolding fifes get together and stir up a concert, always premature, called tattoo.

My daughtare is educate; she stoody fife, seex yare in te convent at Montreal.