their lawful King during the Jacobite rising of 1745, first by a repeat of the Ten Plagues of Egypt and then by a second Great Flood upon Argyllshire. The Bard is instructed to emulate Noah and build an Ark for carefully selected Campbells. The moderates are to be welcomed aboard the Ark's decks after being purged of their Whiggery by first swallowing a heavy dose of seawater. Redcoats from the Campbell of Argyll Militia and a long list of Campbell tacksmen are to be tied with millstones and thrown overboard, or even much worse. Due to the militant Jacobitism of this poem and many others in the same book with it, all known copies of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair's Ais-Eiridh na Sean Chánoin Albannaich were rounded up and publicly burned by the public hangman at Edinburgh in 1752. In around 1780, County Clare poet and hedge school teacher Brian Merriman similarly parodied Aisling poetry in his comic masterpiece Cúirt An Mheán Oíche ("The Midnight Court"). Instead of a Pre-Christian goddess, Merriman describes being arrested by a hideous giant hag while dozing along the shores of Lough Graney. The hag then takes the Bard to the ruined church at Moynoe, where the women of Ireland are suing the men for their unwillingness to marry and father children. After self-justifying arguments by the morally bankrupt lawyers for both genders, the judge, the Pre-Christian goddess Aoibheal, rules that all men except Roman Catholic priests must marry before the age of 20 on pain of flogging at the hands of Ireland's understandably angry and frustrated women. The poet is only saved from being the first single man to be flogged by waking up and realizing that his arrest and the trial were a nightmare. In his poem Aisling an t-Saighdeir ("The Soldier's Dream"), Scottish Gaelic bard and World War I veteran Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna recalls seeing a full-grown red deer stag in the rush-covered glens of North Uist and how he scrambled over rocks and banks trying to get a clear shot at the animal. Dòmhnall slowly took aim and ignited the gunpowder with a spark, only to find that the stag was gone. He had been replaced by Dòmhnall's Captain shouting retreat, as the Imperial German Army had swept behind the Cameron Highlanders and were about to cut off all opportunity to escape. Dòmhnall recalled that he had awakened not a moment too