![]() ![]() The hospitality of the mountains, like that of the valleys, is extinct in almost every place where modern civilisation has penetrated the real old-fashioned article is scarcely to be found except among the savages.ĭonald has made the acquaintance of railways and mail coaches, he has transformed his Highlands into a kind of little Switzerland in fact, the man is no longer recognisable. ![]() I am ready to acknowledge that the Scotch, as a nation, are most hospitable but do not talk to me of the hospitality of the Highlander. The traditional Hospitality of the Highlands. – One more fond Belief gone. – Highland Bills. – Donald's Two Trinities. – Never trust Donald on Saturdays or Mondays. – The Game he prefers. – A well-informed Man. – Ask no Questions and you will be told no Tales. – How Donald showed prodigious Things to a Cockney in the Highlands. – There is no Man so dumb as he who will not be heard.Įver since the French first heard Boïeldieu's opera, La Dame Blanche, and were charmed with the chorus, "Chez les montagnards écossais l'hospitalité se donne," the Highlander has enjoyed a tremendous reputation for hospitality on the other side of the Channel.
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