be exhibited in all their pristine elegance and ingenuity, and every man will be proud of being a Scotchman....9

John Ross in his Ross’s Weekly was unequivocal in landing the club and the gathering, Scots and Scotland. He wrote of the games, the day when

...the stalwart arms and giant hearts of the “Sons of the Heather” will heave and strain and struggle for victory’s palm in the ancient games of their ancestors....'°

He wrote with pride:

The love of a country is a sacred love; and how inspiring of a country pre-eminently great in arts and sciences —— second to none in the “court, the camp, the grove” —— a land teaming with statesmen, historians, novelists, poets — all of fadeless renown, and heroes deathless to fame, as the immortal Wallace and Bruce, who bearing her proud standard to victory, and crushing the stern oppressor, preserved in blood freedom to Caledonia, and broke the shackles presented to her Sons. The Gathering of the Club, under the martial music

First Annual Gathering

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