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Scottish Volunteers at home: after dinner at a sheep-farm near the Spital of Glenshee, 1881. Creator: Unknown.

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Scottish Volunteers at home: after dinner at a sheep-farm near the Spital of Glenshee, 1881. 'A pleasant scene of peaceful repose and refreshment in the yard of a farm-house or country inn, where a party of volunteers, after attending drill in plain clothes, sit together and "have a crack" about the affairs of the local corps, is represented in one of our Sketches. The women of the house, mother and daughter, are serving them with barley bannocks from the basket, and prime native whisky from a bottle which is carried round punctually, but which has no worse effect than gently to stimulate the flow of harmonious conversation. The volunteers have left their rifles, with bayonets and slings, in safe keeping within, so that they may here take their ease, and enjoy the freedom from restraint and responsibility in their military charge. It is only a "company drill" for which they have been assembled upon this occasion ; the periodical battalion drill is somewhat more strict and formal. At parades, marches-out, and inspections they wear full uniform; and some regulations even forbid men to smoke on the road, when going separately to or from the rendezvous of their corps'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.

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