They will all be glad to see you, and may well be proud of you, and I doubt not that the spoil which you gathered at Ayr and elsewhere will create quite a sensation at Glen Cairn.

There are some of you who are, as I remember in the old days, good shots with the bow and arrow.

Do ten of you who were the best at home get bows and arrows from the store.

Here is an order for you to receive them, and be all in readiness to march at daylight." The next morning the band set out in a southwesterly direction, and after a long day's march halted near Cumnock.

In the morning they started at the same time, observing more caution as they went, for by the afternoon they had crossed the stream and were within the boundaries of Carrick.