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THE TRUE STORY OF HAMISH MCLEAN - HAMISH THE PIG 

or as we like and know his as PIGASUS!

Long ago, and far away there lived a tribe of Scots. What they were doing long ago is anyone's guess. (Make your own stories up!!) This bunch of Scots had been sheep herders at one point but got fed up chasing them around the hills. The good looking sheep always knew when they were about! As they got more and more fed up they tried to figure out what they wanted to do. Some wanted to farm, some wanted to reive and others wanted to do nothing.

One of them decided to rear pigs, for what reason no-one knows and he probably didn't either! He started by swiping someone else's piglets and hand reared them. Come on here! Everyone's got to start somewhere! Came the time to slaughter them, this Seamus didn't have the heart to kill them himself so sent them elsewhere to have the foul deed done.

However, his favourite managed to escape and decided to try and get home. He Trotted off down the hill and managed to avoid the villagers but got thirsty! So the wee pig nips down to the river to get a drink....only to get caught in the local waterwheel. His noise was indescribable (and I'm not going to try!) and the locals rushed out to see what the chuff was happening, to see the wee pig caught by the ears in the wheel. Several attempts were made to pull him free but all that did was make his ears bigger. Finally they got him free and he belted out of there as fast as he could. (No manners pigs!)

So he's still trying to get home when a gust of wind caught him and lifted him into the air - 'This'll do for ME' thought the pig, possibly in Pig Latin (and in a precurser to Billy Connoly's accent too!), and away he went. However he didn't have a clue where to look for Seamus and took a couple of years to get home. He went via Liverpool, Mull, Iona, Dundee and Tennessee - just about anywhere he thought Paul (aka in another life: Seamus) might be but no luck!

Now Seamus hadn't been doing too well at the pig breeding lark and was in debt up to his eyeballs. The local Laird came for his annual rent but old Seamus was skint! He promised that he'd pay within the month when his brew money came through. The Laird stated furiously 'I'll believe that when pigs fly'. Unfortunately he wasn't looking up at the time and Hamish flattened him. He peered at Hamish, his eyes went the size of saucers and he promptly dropped dead of a heart attack,................ no-one said Hamish was good looking!!

You may think this is the story of Hamish. However it's two in one. Pigs can fly and you can see pictures of Hamish doing just that on www.macleanscotland.co.uk but it also gives the real story of how Scotland came to be ruled by pig keepers (Sty Wards)! ...... And don't let them tell you their name's from Stewards either! Don't believe me?? Ask Hamish! They did think for a time to have Hamish as their Clan mascot but they thought they might be accused of telling porkies! Hamish last seen chasing Rupert to try and get some Denny & Dunipace tartan aff him!

How Hamish became involved with a certain Pipe Band is another story
 

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