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A Great Screamer

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
August
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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More than fifty years ago Lachian McDonald left his home in Strathspey, Scotland, and went to the shore3 of Lake Winnipeg. He did not neglect to carry with him his beloved bagpipe, and many an evening it spoke to him of the old home beyond the seas. Even in the daytime, when he was busy in the woods feiling trees, he would have it by his side, and on one occasion he had reason to be glad that it was so near. He was merrily swinging his axe, when he was suddenly surrounded by a party of Indians, who looked very formidable as they drew nearer gesticulating in a particularly threatening manner. Things began to seem ominous, when a happy thought came to the Scotchman. Seizing his bagpipe, he blew a blast so loud and long and shrill that the startled red men looked upon him for a moment in consternation, and then took to their heel3 never stopping till the thick shadows of the forest hid them from the man who could give vent to such an unearthly scream. They did not forget that prolonged cry; from that time the Scotchman was known among them a3 the "great screamer of the palé faces."

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News