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McKelvie at the Quay Inn will ken a' about that. There's a man in the island ye will be glad to meet if he's in his ordinar McDearg they ca' him and after that, Hamish, we will stravaig to the South End and see the sheep there and come back hame again. Are ye game for it?" says he. "Ay, Dan, but there's just this who is this Dol Beag?"
"Humour her, Hamish; humour the weemen. A new face is New Year to Auld Kate that keeps house tae McDearg." "Och, it's the lassies will be the pleased ones, coiling the blankets round them; it's Auld Kate that kens," and then she gave a screitchy hooch and began to sing in her cracked thin voice 'The man's no' born and he never will be, The man's no born that will daunton me.
"D'ye hear him, the laughing o' him, and his blackbirds spying all day ay, the Ravens from the Red Rocks; but they have nae terrors for Roland McDearg." A long time he was silent, and then slowly the words came Play me back, McRae, till I hear the water wimpling on the hill burns, when I lie flat to drink, the brown peaty water, McRae, and the sheep looking at me before they run.
There came the noise of piping in that strange house, and we tramped along a stone-flagged passage, and entered a room looking to the sea, and there, before a great fire, was McDearg, an old man, with evil looking from his eyes. He sat in his great chair, his head on his breast, and his shepherd, with the pipes on his knee, sat listening.
"I had that in my head," says Dan, "for the gangers are in the Cove at Bealach an sgadan, and McGilp will be in the Channel. McDearg o' the Isle House is in this to his oxters. There's just nothing for it but to show a glim on the seaward side o' the Isle, and McGilp will take the Gull to the Rhu Ban when the wind takes off; but, man, it's risky, devilish risky, wi' the bay fou o' boats."
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