Trying to whistle and keep up my courage, I would plod through the darkness, falling back in all emergencies upon the thought of what Wallace would have done if he had met with any foe, natural or supernatural.
King Robert the Bruce never got justice from my cousin or myself in childhood.

It was enough for us that he was a king while Wallace was the man of the people.

Sir John Graham was our second.

The intensity of a Scottish boy's patriotism, reared as I was, constitutes a real force in his life to the very end.

If the source of my stock of that prime article--courage--were studied, I am sure the final analysis would find it founded upon Wallace, the hero of Scotland.