tune.
However, I don't suppose there are many now living fitter to
give evidence on the subject than Doctor Jee; but I may
mention another incident. The morning after the Residency
was evacuated, I visited the bivouac of the Seventy-Eighth
near Dilkoosha, to make inquiries about an old school chum
who had enlisted in the regiment. I found him still alive,
and he related to me how he had been one of the men who were
with Dr. Jee collecting the wounded in the streets of
Lucknow on the 26th of September, and how they had been cut
off from the main body and besieged in a house the whole
night, and Dr. Jee was the only officer with the party, and
that he had been recommended for the Victoria Cross for his
bravery in defending the place and saving a large number of
the wounded. I may mention another incident which my friend
told me, and which has not been so much noticed as the
Jessie Brown story. It was told to me as a fact at the time,
and it afterwards appeared in a Glasgow newspaper. It was as
follows: When Dr. Jee's detachment and the wounded were
fighting their way to the Residency, a wounded piper and
three others who had fired their last round of ammunition
were charged by half-a-dozen rebel _sowars_[27] in a side
street, and the three men with rifles prepared to defend
themselves with the bayonet; but as soon as the _sowars_
were within about twenty paces of the party, the piper
pointed the drones of his bagpipes straight at them and blew
such a wild blast that they turned tail and fled like the
wind, mistaking the bagpipes for some infernal machine! But
enough of Lucknow. Let us turn to more ancient history. Who
ever heard of a Highland regiment going into action without
their bagpipes and pipers, unless the latter were all
"kilt"? No officer who ever commanded Highlanders knew the
worth of a good piper better than Colonel John Cameron, "the
grandson of Lochiel, the valiant Fassifern." And is there a
Highland soldier worthy of the name who has not heard of his
famous favourite piper who was shot at Cameron's side when
playing the charge, while crossing the Nive in face of the
French? The historian of the Peninsula war relates: "When
the Ninety-Second Highlanders were in the middle of the