They soon left the main road, and struck into the hills.

They had not traveled far when three strange figures suddenly presented themselves.
These men were clad in a garb which to the lads was strange and wild indeed.

The kilt, as worn by Highlanders on show occasions in the present day is a garment wholly unlike that worn by their ancestors, being, indeed, little more than a masquerade dress.

The kilt of the old time resembled indeed the short petticoat now worn by savage peoples.

It consisted of a great length of cloth wound round and round the loins, and falling like a loose petticoat to the knees, a portion being brought over one shoulder, and then wrapped round and round the body.