Harrrington's - being the collected thoughts of the Hon Sec, by way of excuse and explanation.

  I must confess I enjoy a little innocent mischief as much as the next man which is why I always found Chirnside such agreeable company.   When working for the Min of Works it was his aim to slip as many fables into the national conscientiousness as possible.   It was generally felt, amid his chums, that the small footnote in the Culloden Museum Guide book was his masterpiece.     The innocent and wholly unreferenced assemblage of words claimed the reason Bonny Prince Charlie’s romantic hordes were slaughtered was not, as thought, due to tactical incompetence and the misfortune at last to take on a bunch of coves used to mixing it with Louis XV’s finest – rather than the usual garrison of chaps with a note from mother excusing them drill – but in fact because the entire Scottish nation had boycotted carrots as they were breed orange to support King William and his ilk.   The resulting night blindness led to an inability to find the British Army until l...