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Updated: June 6, 2025
One afternoon we had a call from a quaint old Scotch dame, in a queer dress, sunbonnet, and spectacles, who introduced herself as the wife of Sandy Maclachlan, a sheep-farmer who lived about twenty-five miles away. It wasn't right, she said, that such near neighbours should not know one another, so she had ridden those few leagues to find out what we were like.
Maclachlan will want you every time, and you'll be wise to have him as often as possible, for he dances like a fairy. Davie's none so bad, but Maclachlan is just grand. And the incomparable one," grimacing prettily at me, "will foot it trippingly by the look of him." "I dance like a three-legged bear," said I, grim enough at having my defects brought home to me.
He led me up the wide pend close and round the back of old Stonefield's dwelling, and into a corner of a lane that gave upon the fields, yet at the same time kept a plain view of the door of Askaig's house, where we guessed MacLachlan was now on his visit to the Provost's family.
* It could hardly be 'Pallas Armata. The narrator anticipates Sir James Turner's ingenious treatise by several years. Of a sudden MacLachlan made dart at the chests and pulled them back from the door with a most surprising vigour of arm before any one could prevent him.
'Observations on N. American Neuroptera, by H. Hagen and B.D. Walsh, 'Proceedings, Ent. Soc. MacLachlan has captured hundreds of the female Apatania muliebris, but has never seen the male; and of Boreus hyemalis only four or five males have been seen here. 'Proceedings, Ent. Soc. In the other classes of the Articulata I have been able to collect still less information. With spiders, Mr.
I counted ten tartans in as many minutes between the cross and the kirk, most of them friendly with MacCailein Mor, but a few, like that of MacLachlan of that ilk, at variance, and the wearers with ugly whingers or claymores at their belts. Than those MacLachlans one never saw a more barbarous-looking set.
My fingers were on his throat before I saw that we had for our visitor none other than young MacLachlan. He had his sgian dubh almost at my stomach before our mutual recognition saved the situation. "You're a great stranger," said John Splendid, with a fine pretence at more coolness than he felt, "and yet I thought Cowal side would be more to your fancy than real Argile in this vexatious time."
He was induced to this by the report of the hostler, who said that the horse which Mr Maclachlan had hired from Worcester would be much more pleased with returning to his friends there than to prosecute a long journey; for that the said horse was rather a two-legged than a four-legged animal.
Being a lass of spirit, she quickly reasoned herself out of this foolishness, rose, washed, changed her stockings, put off her shawl for cap and apron, and albeit in trepidation presented herself once more at the door of Mrs. Johnstone's garret. "Please you, mistress," she managed to say, "I am Kirstie Maclachlan, the new maid from Wyliebank." Mrs. "Yes, mistress." "What books have you brought?"
Alasdair," he said, turning to his man, who it seemed was his dalta or foster-brother, "we'll accommodate those two friends of ours when and where they like." "Master," cried the gillie, "I would like well to have this on my own hands," and he looked at me with great venom as he spoke. MacLachlan laughed.
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