286 The Dog Book 
that is hazy, but we recall the delight we took in some of the Jacobite songs 
which our mother and aunts had learned from nurses and their parents’ 
folks, who were Haddingtonshire residents when Bonnie Prince Charlie 
and his Highland followers were there. We liked nothing better than to 
hear our oldest aunt, born 1801, sing “Hie Johnnie Cowp, are ye waukin’ 
yet ?”—the song that was written after the Battle of Prestonpans, which 
was won by an early morning attack of the Highlanders upon the sleeping 
English troops under Sir John Cope. That goes back to 1745. Had 
we been at all curious, there is no doubt we could have been told about 
incidents of that campaign which had come at first hand to those who sang 
to us the Jacobite songs. The great interest now being taken in the dis- 
covery of the body of Paul Jones and the bringing it to this country for 
interment in American soil recalls the fact that he was the “bogey man” 
of our very youthful days. The direct punishment for misbehaviour was 
the threat to have “Paul Jones, the Pirate,” attend to our case. On the 
southeast coast of Scotland there was undoubtedly the greatest fear of a visit 
from “the Pirate,” and some of those who used the threat to us must have 
been living at the time of his exploits, while others used the threat as it 
had been used to them. We therefore hold that Major Topham could 
write with authority of incidents participated in by his informants as far 
back as 1700, and those informants could with like knowledge by informa- 
tion take him back nearly another fifty years, and this without any extraor- 
dinary stretch of longevity. Men he knew in his youth could tell him 
of the introduction of the flintlock, which, as we hold, covers the life of 
the pointer, and what more natural for some of these old fellows to say that 
they remembered when the pointer was just a dog for finding hares for 
coursing. ‘There is a good deal more than mere theory in this. 
The following anecdote from the “Sportsman’s Repository” .is not 
advanced as evidence of the claim set forth being absolutely correct, but 
it certainly is not in any way a contradiction. “A gentleman in the County 
of Stirling lately kept a greyhound and pointer, and being fond of coursing, 
the pointer was accustomed to find the hares and the greyhound to catch 
them. When the season was over it was found that the dogs were in the 
habit of going out by themselves and killing hares for their own amuse- 
ment.” The rest of the story is that a collar and large ring were so arranged 
as to prevent the pointer jumping walls or fences, but the greyhound learned 
to take the ring in his mouth and carry it till the pointer pointed the hare. 
