Re: 12th Laird of Culloden


"Don Moody" <dpmoody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

To have a claim to be a laird put on one's tombstone seems to me to be a
last-gasp attempt by a failure to say his life meant something.

Don


I dunno.
You may be right, but it does indicate a 'guid conceit'
and a certain sense of style that is being bred out of
the rest of us.

Glenallan
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Maharaja of Auchensguggle.


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