THE FAMILY FORMED THEIR VERY OWN PIPE BAND!

And they named it "One Piper's Family."

And of course, they soon became a verra big hit all throughout Edinburgh. Every afternoon, big crowds gathered along both sides of the Royal Mile's pavements to watch Angus, Heather, Jamie and Colleen march up that wonderful auld street, playing a spirited rendition of The Kilt is my Delight. Ye couldn't ask fer a better way to celebrate lunchtime!

And each evening, just before moonrise, every one of the apartment dwellers gathered at the windows to watch the foursome journeying down the Royal Mile, to pipe the Auld Toon's inhabitants a jolly lullaby --- in the form of The Mist-Cover'd Mountains.

And every so often, whenever Angus got bitten by that wonderful auld Highland spirit, he and his One Piper's Family would dress themselves up in full-dress Highland uniforms, complete with kilt of the Prince Charles Edward Stuart Tartan.... and off they'd venture to their favourite secluded spot, way up in that magnificent Highland countryside.

And once there, all four of them would play their pipes as loudly, and for as long as they liked!

"What a happy bunch o' Highlanders we are!" they thought, as they honked their merry tune. And indeed, it was said of Pipe Major Angus and his One Piper's Family that truly there was never a happier bunch o' pipers in the whole o' bonny Scotland!

And clearly, the Lord Mayor's Herald was just as happy as the Family were; for nothing pleased him --- and, for that matter, the Lord Mayor of Edinburgh himself --- than seeing these four good-hearted souls bringin' so much joy to the citizenry in general, and to the residents of the Royal Mile in particular. If ye needed to ask for anything more, as the Herald himself often used to say, ye would only need a Leprechaun at yer side!

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"One Piper's Family," (c) copyright 1997, 1999; copyright renewed (c) 2001, 2004, 2005, 2008 by Richard Washington. All rights reserved.