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Show j'laiUa lu Uutorr. There are in existence to-day about one hundred elan plaids, of which about half are the Highland tartans. The other half are modern variations pro- duced by Lowland families for their identification, as certain ambitious persons per-sons to-day buy up or think up a fine coat of arms. The plaid oftenest seen on the streets to-day is the Gordon plaid. This is the blue and green and black plaid, with a single yellow bar. It must not be confounded with the blue and green and black with the white bar, which is the Lombard plaid; or the blue and green and black with the double yellow bar, whioh is the plaid of the Campbells of Breadelbane; or the same plaid, with the single red and double white bar, which makes up the Colquhoun tartan. What a risky thing it was to be born at all in those days when it might cost a man his life not to know the difference between, two bars of white and one bar of yellow in the tartan of any stranger he might meet on the wayside. The Gordon piaia nas a lamous history from back in the almost legeudary d'Ry of' Malcolm III., when Richard of Goidbn slew a monster in the Morse anoj got big grant of land and a title for it, " |