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"It's nothing but Bogbonny's bull, Ranald!" he cried. Kelpies were unknown creatures to Turkey, but a bull was no more than a dog or a sheep, or any other domestic animal. I, however, did not share his equanimity, and never slackened my pace till I got up with him. "But he's rather ill-natured," he went on, the instant I joined him, "and we had better make for the hill."
While the former were drawn mostly from his own full and eventful life, the latter were fairy stories, pure and simple, sometimes already well known, sometimes made up, wherein fairies, ghosts, elves, gnomes, goblins and dragons, will-o'-the-wisps, nixies, kelpies and dwarfs disported themselves. Christmas was approaching, and the next day, Christmas-eve, the tree was to be lighted.
"An' I wad fain ken what ye'll say til't, for ye never wad alloo o' kelpies; an' there's me been followed by a sure ane, this last half-hoor or it may be less!" "Hoo kenned ye it was a kelpie it's maist as dark's pick?" "Kenned! quo' he? Didna I hear the deevil ahin' me the tramp o' a' the fower feet o' 'im, as gien they had been fower an' twinty!"
She spoke of having heard about many an Orcadian who, in attempting to reach the innermost recesses of such caverns, had been taken possession of by the evil spirits that were commonly believed to inhabit these places; and the strangely-echoing sounds we heard were exaggerated in her imagination, and became to her as the weird voices of kelpies and water nymphs.
She was found one night lying at the foot of the cliff in the Kelpies' Glen with a broken neck." "Ah!" said Carver. "I begin to see." "Now, that Kelpies' Glen," continued Triffitt, "was a sort of ravine which lay between the town of Jedburgh and the school. It was traversed by a rough path which lay along the top of one side of it, amongst trees and crags.
'Divil take me if it ain't the Hermit! gasped Ryan, with an expiration of intense relief. Coleman's stony expression instantly relaxed, he recovered himself with a jerk of the bead. 'Well, he murmured bitterly, 'of all the stuck pigs! What the blue fury 're ye all sittin' garpin' at like a lot o' demented damn kelpies? Give way there! How's the young lady, Smith?
"The verra question she'd be askin' ye'sel' wha' gars ye tae come gowkin' an' spierin' aboot here at sic an hour?" "It is my intention to live here, for the future," said I. "Hoot toot! ye'll be no meanin' it?" "But I do mean it," said I. "Eh, man! but ye maun ken the place is no canny, what wi' pixies, an' warlocks, an' kelpies, forbye "
His head had been stuffed, in boyhood, with "tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights," etc., told him by one Jenny Wilson, an old woman who lived in the family. His ear was full of ancient Scottish tunes, and as soon as he fell in love he began to make poetry as naturally as a bird sings.
Usually, only one judge sits, but in cases of special importance there are two, and two came to Jedburgh, this being a case of very special importance, and one that was arousing a mighty amount of interest. It was locally known as the Kelpies' Glen Case, and by that name it got into all the papers we could find it, of course, in our own files." "I'll turn it up," observed Carver.
If a man achieves not that, then struggle with earth or air or the waves of the sea is desirable. Driving sleet, armies of the snow, night and trackless mountains, the leap of the torrent, swollen lakes where kelpies lie in wait, wind on the sea with the black reef and the charging breakers, it is well to dash one's force against the force of these, and to die after fighting.
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