To the Editor of the Nonra-CHiNA Darcy News."*
Sut,—Apropos of the Royal Scots and their alleged service with Pontins Pilate, I have just come across, this regiment in a book entitled "Recollections of Forty Years Service" by Major-General A. B, Tulloch, who was with the Royal Scots for a considerable part of his service career. He mentions 'a regimental tradition to the effect that an officer in the Picardy Rege iment, wishing to make out that hig was the older regiment, admitted that the Scots were very ancient and were Pontius' Pilate's body guard at the Crucifixion, but claimed that the Picardy Regiment were marines on bourd Noah's Ark.
To this the Scots? officer he was talking to replied, "Oh, that's nothing, it was a subaltern's guard of the Scots which turned Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Bden!"
The author goes on to nay that book giving the record of the Regi meet was kept in the orderly room, and began as follows: "In the helen 800."
Someone, considering that date not sufficiently ancient added the letters B. C.
Tam, ete,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.