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Show Scotch Not to Blame. Tho harp was tho Highlander's Instrument In-strument boforo tho bagplpo. That point v.as Insisted upon by a Scotchman Scotch-man of fifty years ago, tho lord advocate ad-vocate of tho tlmo, who was anxious to disclaim his country's responsibility responsibil-ity for tho bagpipes, and to show that thoy wero "English, essentially English." Eng-lish." Ho appealed to Skakcspcaro, who often mentions tha pipes, but not once in ".Macbeth," his only Scottish drama; it is in Lincolnshire and York-, shlro that ho localizes tho Instrument.. James IV's accounts contain an Item for "Inglls pyparis," whllo our Edward I had his court plporsr and from his time on to Elizabeth's mention of such ofllclals constantly recurs. Most Englishmen Eng-lishmen aro thankful to havo given the pipes safo conduct across tho border. bor-der. London Chronicle. |