Isn't it Cluny MacPherson ( do we call him THE Cluny?) who looks so good in his jacket with only a shiny waistplate to stop his kilt from climbing to his neck? [/QUOTE]
He is called simply "Cluny", as an abbreviation for Cluny-MacPherson, and his companion is to be addressed as Lady Cluny. See So You're Going to Wear the Kilt, Thompson, page 51.
I have enjoyed your derailment, and your derailment of your derailment as well. You have it down to a fine art...
"Before two notes of the theme were played, Colin knew it was Patrick Mor MacCrimmon's 'Lament for the Children'...Sad seven times--ah, Patrick MacCrimmon of the seven dead sons....'It's a hard tune, that', said old Angus. Hard on the piper; hard on them all; hard on the world." Butcher's Broom, by Neil Gunn, 1994 Walker & Co, NY, p. 397-8.
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