2 FEBRUARY 1901, Page 15

[To THR EDITOR OF TDB "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The late Dean Stanley

told me that be once conversed with a man who had seen the Highlanders in the rising of '45 pass through Cumberland. He said he asked him how he remembered this. " I was a boy," he replied, " at the time, herding kye, and they told me that there were men coming that way who had no trousers and who might steal mine, so I took my trousers off and hid them in a hole in a wall. That's how I remember it."—I am, Sir, &c., J. CAMERON LEES.

Edinburgh.