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"For instance in preaching, eh!" said Dr. Kane.
"Aye, in preaching or in political oratory," replied the minister.
At this, however, the old piper shook his head doubtfully.
"You do not agree with Mr. Munro in that?" said the M.P.P.
"No," replied Sutherland, "speaking iss one thing, piping iss another."
"And that is no lie, and a mighty good thing too it is," said Dr. Kane
flippantly.
"It iss no lie," replied the old piper with dignity. "And if you knew
much about either of them you would say it deeferently."
"Why, what is the difference, Mr. Sutherland?" said Dr. Kane, anxious to
appease the old man. "They both are means of expressing the emotions of
the soul, you say."
"The deeference! The deeferenee iss it? The deeference iss here, that
the pipes will neffer lie."
There was a shout of laughter.
"One for you, Kane!" cried the Reverend Harper Freeman. "And," he
continued when the laughing had ceased, "we will have to take our share
too, Mr. Munro."
But the hour for beginning the programme had arrived and the secretary
climbed to the platform to announce the events for the day.
"Ladies and gentlemen!" he cried, in a high, clear, penetrating voice,
"the speech of welcome will be delivered toward the close of the day by
the president of the Middlesex Caledonian Society, the Honourable J.
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