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[email protected] providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 25. Sep. 2021 July_August.qxd 3/6/13 11:57 Page 44 ‘Ink in the the blood of the Macdonalds’ ‘Ink in the the blood of the Macdonalds’ Andrew Wiseman investigates Rudyard Kipling’s Skye Connection almost all that they wanted to know.’ Kipling deemed that although the speeches were good the Lord Provost’s comments concerning local politics were a trifle parochial. Nevertheless, the Moderator in replying to Kipling’s speech on behalf of the university spoke of Edinburgh having annexed an Englishman! Kipling was not best pleased and would later recall the incident: …said nought but watched him deliver himself deeply into my hands.