Note 742 — SCENE II.

Red-shanks] An appellation of contempt given to the Scottish Highlanders and to the native Irish. “Both summer and winter (except when the frost is most vehement), going always bare-legged and bare-footed, our delight and pleasure is not only in hunting of red-deer, wolves, foxes, and graies [i.e. badgers], whereof we abound and have great plenty, but also in running, leaping, swimming, shooting, and throwing of darts. Therefore in so much as we use, and delight so to go always, the tender delicate gentlemen of Scotland call us Redshanks.” MS. quoted by Pinkerton—Hist. of Scot. vol. ii. p. 396.