There is another side to the question, however, and it is expressed by Lord Anderson, a colleague of Lord Sands in the Outer House of the Court of Session. Three thousand black sheep, he says. seem a large number, but whether it is so in reality depends on the size of the flock, and if that aspect of the ease be considered the whole matter presents a different view. Tu the course of the war Scotland recruited something like 1,000,000 soldiers to the British Army. The majority of these were undoubtedly single men, but he did not think it an excessive estimate to suggest that 300.000 wives of soldiers were left in Scotland, and if the figure which was suggested by Lord Sands be applied to that large number the result is that one Scottish wife out of every 100 lapsed from virtue. While one keeps in view the trying times which the whole country experienced, said Lord Anderson, and especially that their wives experienced through their husbands, their morat support, being no longer with them, the remarkable figure is not the one. but the 99. and in justice to the women of Scotland the figure which ought to be emphasized is that 99 out of 100. in the midst of these trials and temptations have kept straight.
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