THE BAG-PIPES.
The bag-pipes is an institution which, like "mountain dew," haggis, and a few other productions of the "land o' cakes" has a fragrance peculiarly its own. It is said that the lovo oi bagpipes is, like poetry, born in mankind, and not manufactured. Thus it is that quite a number of people have no particular partiality for them. However, the cable tells us that the Prince of Wales i s learning the bagpipes, and that under-graduate.s are forming practising parties. So it may happen that heredity may be .superseded by fashion, and that all piejudice against the national music of Scotland will be broken down entirely. Would it not lie possible to institute bag-pipe playing instea-d of military drill in our scholastic institutions? In the defence of our country against invasion by a foreign enemy, the skirl nuiv be much more elTectivo than the dum-dum!
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 February 1913, Page 4
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