The Chief must be Colonel: his uncle or his brother must be Major: the tacksmen, who formed what may be called the peerage of the little community, must be the Captains: the company of each Captain must consist of those peasants who lived on his land, and whose names, faces, connections, and characters, were perfectly known to him: the subaltern officers must be selected among the Duinhe Wassels, proud of the eagle's feather: the henchman was an excellent orderly: the hereditary piper and his sons formed the band: and the clan became at once a regiment.

In such a regiment was found from the first moment that exact order and prompt obedience in which the strength of regular armies consists.

Every man, from highest to lowest, was in his proper place, and knew that place perfectly.

It was not necessary to impress by threats or by punishment on the newly enlisted troops the duty of regarding as their head him whom they had regarded as their head ever since they could remember any thing.

Every private had, from infancy, respected his corporal much and his Captain more, and had almost adored his Colonel.