Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1910 — The Bagpipe Competition. [ARTICLE]

The Bagpipe Competition.

At a Highland gathering one Donald McLean had entered for a number of events. The first .of these was the quarter-mile. Donald certainly didn’t distinguish himself in the quartermile. Of eight runners he was the last. “Donald! Donald!” cried a partisan. “Why did ye no run faster?” Donald sneered. "Run faster!” he said, contemptuously. “And me reservin’ mysel’ for the bagpipe competition!”