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Another story may show the disorderly state of insular neighbourhood. The inhabitants of the Isle of Egg, meeting a boat manned by Macleods, tied the crew hand and foot, and set them a-drift. Macleod landed upon Egg, and demanded the offenders; but the inhabitants refusing to surrender them, retreated to a cavern, into which they thought their enemies unlikely to follow them.
He saw, however, that some impression was made on one person, who visited the sloop on business, one William Tolney, who had connexions at Inverness, from having once been a merchant there, and who was now a tenant of the Macleods, in a neighbouring island.
The room was decorated with a great variety of maps and prints. Among others, was Hogarth's print of Wilkes grinning, with a cap of liberty on a pole by him. Certainly Bozzy had never thought of finding a remembrance of his 'classic friend' in such circumstances. Dunvegan and the castle of the Macleods received them in hospitable style.
The walls were very thick, diminishing a little toward the top, and though in these countries, stone is not brought far, must have been raised with much labour. Within the great circle were several smaller rounds of wall, which formed distinct apartments. Its date, and its use are unknown. Some suppose it the original seat of the chiefs of the Macleods. Mr. Macqueen thought it a Danish fort.
I have never heard the opprobrious phrase "squaw man" used on the Canadian frontier; and descendants of the MacKenzies, the Isbisters, the Hardistys, the Strathconas, the Macleans, the MacLeods blush, not with shame but pride, in acknowledging the Indian strain of blood.
The 'Rout of Moy' was hardly more creditable to the Hanoverian arms than the 'Canter of Coltbridge. In this affair only one man fall, MacRimmon, the hereditary piper of the Macleods. Before leaving Skye he had prophesied his own death in the lament, 'Macleod shall return, but MacRimmon shall never.
'And do you know one Sir Keith Macleod there? I asked. 'Oh no, ma'am, said he, staring at me with his clear blue eyes as if I was a very stupid person, 'The Macleods are from Skye. 'But surely one of them may live in Mull, I suggested.
"Oh Macleod, Macleod! are you going away from me forever and we will go up the hills together and on the lochs together no more no more no more! Oh, the brave lad that he was! and the good master! And who was not proud of him my handsome lad and he the last of the Macleods of Dare?"
Now the small green banner has been waved only twice; and now I believe it is still preserved in the Castle of Dunvegan, with power to work one more miracle on behalf of the Macleods. And if I had the fairy flag, do you know what I would do with it?
"And I hope it will all turn out for your happiness, Keith," she said, gently, as she left. But as for Lady Macleod, when Janet reached her room, the haughty old dame was "neither to hold nor to bind." There was nothing she would not have done for this favorite son of hers but this one thing. Give her consent to such a marriage? The ghosts of all the Macleods of Dare would call shame on her!
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