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carry out the difficult task of satisfying us all. Finally, gentle- 

 men, I drink to you all, and to you all I say ' I thank you,' and 

 as I hope to see you again, au revoir. I sincerely hope that 

 most of you will come and visit the forests of France, where I 

 shall always be happy to see and to guide you." 



Mr R. H. Campbell said : — " I feel very much at this moment 

 like imitating the example which some people say was set 

 by my Highland ancestor of disappearing under the table 

 instead of appearing above it, and it was absolutely the same 

 feeling that affected him that affects me, namely, modesty. It 

 would make a person feel very modest indeed to be called upon 

 to address an audience in the capital of Scotland, this ancient 

 capital which represents Scotland in miniature by its great 

 buildings, its old and solid architecture, its beauty, its romance 

 and its history. These things perhaps do not impress the Scots- 

 man as much as they do the man who is away from Scotland 

 and ever looks back upon it ; or comes to it for the first time, 

 after having heard many old tales of Scotland from those who 

 left it years before ; for the love that a Scotsman has for his 

 country is no less in the Scotsman who goes abroad and his 

 descendants than in the Scotsman who remains at home. 

 Perhaps, in a way, it may be even a stronger feeling, for the 

 love is sometimes enhanced by distance, and the man who is far 

 away abroad looks back in an ideal fashion to the land he has 

 left behind. 



' From the lone shieling in the misty island 

 The years divide us, and the waste of seas, 

 But still the heart is Highland, 

 And seems to see the Hebrides.' 



These sentiments are in the heart of every Scotsman on the 

 other side, whether their recollection is Highland or Lowland. 

 It makes me feel rather diffident, too, when I consider that I am 

 representing such a great country as the Dominion of Canada, 

 a vast extent of country undeveloped, without any great history 

 as yet, but making history every day. 



' Ours is not a land of story, 

 Ours is not a land of glory.' 



" We have no long line of bards and sages looking down on 

 us through the ages, but we are trying to build up one of the 

 component parts of the British Empire. There is beating in the 

 heart of every Canadian citizen a feeling that he is very proud 



