Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . uth was as strong as a bull. A London draw-ing-room is the only place in Europe where a race ofmen better grown than West Highland gentlemen isto be met. Having associated with peasants in everycountry which I have visited, mixing mth aU classeson equal terms, so far as I could, I have arrived atthe conclusion that a Celt is an average human animal,equal mentally and physically to any other species ofthe genus homo similarly placed. Much the same canbe said of Lapps, though they are a small race, andI am no believer in the natural superi
Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . uth was as strong as a bull. A London draw-ing-room is the only place in Europe where a race ofmen better grown than West Highland gentlemen isto be met. Having associated with peasants in everycountry which I have visited, mixing mth aU classeson equal terms, so far as I could, I have arrived atthe conclusion that a Celt is an average human animal,equal mentally and physically to any other species ofthe genus homo similarly placed. Much the same canbe said of Lapps, though they are a small race, andI am no believer in the natural superiority of any onerace over another. It seems to be in the nature ofraces to dislike and despise each other, and I wouldwillingly speak up for the minority, who cannotspeak for themselves, having no English, and whoare apt quietly to despise the Saxon fully as muchas he despises them. Both are wrong, as much andas surely as the members and the stomach erred whenthey fell out. The one cannot suffer but the othermust ache. WEST HIGHLAND STORIES. 365 1560, or thereabouts. From a rough sketch taken from a picture at Tay-mouth, said to be a portrait of The Regent Murray. The arms are :Gun, pistol, powder horn, dirk, and sword. Dress hardly belongs to my subject, but those whodeny the existence of Gaelic poems, and affect to des-pise Celts, often assert that the Highland dress is ofmodern invention. I have so often heard this gravelymaintained, that it may be as well to give some reasonsfor a different opinion, and quote some authorities forthe antiquity of the Garb of old Gaul. 366 CELTIC DRESS. The patterns of taitan are produced by crossing andtwisting threads of various colours. It is easy to dyehanks of yarn of single colours, and the simplest ar-rangement of coloured threads is to cross them ; conse-quently the first effort to produce a pattern by theweavers art, generally results in squares and barssomething like Scotch tartan. The South Sea Islanders,who wear home-made
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