Show th the scottish tit the origin of the thistle as the national badge of scotland is thus given by radt tion when the danes invaded scotland it was as deemed unwarlike to attack the enemy by night instead of in pitched battle by day but on one occasion the invaders tried a night attack in order to prevent their tramp being beard they marched arched in barefooted and they had succeeded in creeping close up to lo the scottish forces unobserved when one ot of them stepped on a thistle and uttered a cry of pain the alarm was waa given and the attack was beaten off out of gratitude the he thistle was adopted as the insignia of scotland |