Note 27 — Chapter IV
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"With a pitchfork they made such an openeing in my rone horse's belly." Sir Walter, following tradition, has mounted Claverhouse on a coal-black charger without a single white hair in its body, a present, according to the legends of the time, from the Devil to his favourite servant. See also Aytoun's fine ballad "The Burial March of Dundee":
"Then our leader rode among us On his war-horse black as night; Well the Cameronian rebels Knew that charger in the fight."