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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: Well, then, my lord, here is a sort of Highland host assembled,
or expected to assemble, in these wild hills, in the King's
behalf. Now, sir, you know the nature of our Highlanders. I
will not deny them to be a people stout in body and valiant in
heart, and courageous enough in their own wild way of fighting,
which is as remote from the usages and discipline of war as ever
was that of the ancient Scythians, or of the salvage Indians of
America that now is, They havena sae mickle as a German whistle,
or a drum, to beat a march, an alarm, a charge, a retreat, a
reveille, or the tattoo, or any other point of war; and their
damnable skirlin' pipes, whilk they themselves pretend to
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