Sketch of the Munro Clan

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English instead of with the Scotch at Culloden.
Humanity forbade, however, that the men of
the Black Watch, who would have followed
their idolized leader anywhere, should be sent
to fight against their own brethren. So they
were detailed on other duty, while Sir Robert
was put in command of an English regiment,
the 37th. At the battle of Falkirk, however,
these Englishmen, seized with panic, deserted
their commander, leaving him, bravely defend-
ing himself against overwhelming numbers, to
be slain. " Ochoin, Ochoin," wailed an old
clansman, who died early in this century, when
describing this almost-worshipped Munro chief
to a boy who still lives, and cursing the English
regiment, — " Ochoin, had his ain folk [mean-
ing the Black Watch] been there ! "
Colonel Sir Robert's son, Sir Harry Munro,
the twenty-fifth baron, who was educated at the
University of Leyden, seems to have been a
scholarly person and a writer. His literary
methods, however, must have been slower than
those of the much-heralded Scotch writers of
to-day; for Sir Harry gave thirty years to the
writing of a dissertation on Buchanan's " Psalms