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Updated: June 26, 2025
The "Auld Gean Tree" fell into its dotage and was cut down to the strains of a "lament," with which the wail and skirl of the bagpipes drowned the noise of the woodmen's axes. Out of the wood of the "Auld Gean Tree" a local artificer constructed a handsome cabinet with many drawers, in which were stored the Elchies collection of fly-hooks classified carefully according to their sizes and kinds.
Gean took them all very gently, and seemed humbled and grateful, and when, a little later on, he suggested that she should let him always take care of her, she thought it over and finally concluded it would be a very nice arrangement.
And so Groar took her home to his herd and introduced her to the leader an old giraffe with a dark chestnut hide and a longer neck than any of the others as his wife. And Gean was very happy, for Groar was a good and kind husband, and very devoted to her, and she no longer had to be always looking out for danger, for Groar was always watching, and guarded her with the greatest care.
She took care, however, to look round in all directions, and, as her beautiful, round eyes projected in a peculiar manner, she was able to do this without moving her head at all. The only direction in which she could not look without turning her head was directly behind her, but this little difficulty was overcome by walking in a semi-circle for a few minutes. Suddenly Gean saw the enemy.
It was still a spring world, clothed in a most delicate and exquisite garb of green, waiting only for the touch of later summer to give it a deeper hue. There were many touches of white and pink bloom, showing in exquisite contrast where the hawthorn and the gean were in flower.
A suitable receptacle was constructed for this collection from the timber of the "Auld Gean Tree of Elchies" the largest of its kind in all Scotland whose trunk had a diameter of nearly four feet and whose branches had a spread of over twenty yards.
As for Gean, she was sublimely happy, and was never tired of fondling and caressing her little one and attending to its many wants. For it was a delicate baby, and for some time after its birth it seemed very doubtful whether it would live or not. But Gean tended and nourished it, kept it nice and warm, and in due course of time it grew strong and healthy. And here we must leave Gean.
Gean was pacing slowly up and down the open plain one day, but keeping pretty close to the low woods for she avoided the high forest, not being able to keep as good a lookout there for her two greatest enemies, men and lions when she suddenly scented danger. It was a long way off, it is true, but Gean had a very keen sense of smell.
Crouching down, with his huge head close to the ground, he watched his opportunity, for he had no relish for springing straight at those flourishing heels, and Gean took very good care to keep her head carefully out of his way, although she was quite prepared to give him a good blow with a sidelong swing of her-muscular neck.
'Look there, Sir, in that glen. I haf seen six cot houses smoking there, and now there is not any left. There were three men of my own name had crofts on the machars beyond the point, and if you go there you will only find the marks of their bit gardens. You will know the place by the gean trees.
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