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General Mackay halted the host on a spacious green plain which lies at the meeting of the Tummel and the Gary, and which the Highlanders call Fascali, because, as the name in their tongue signifies, no trees are growing thereon.
"A fool may ask mair questions ner a doctor can answer." The shepherd shifted in his seat. "That Wilson was na shaks nowther," continued Matthew quietly. "He was accustomed to 'tummel' his neighbors, and never paused to inquire into their bruises. He'd olas the black dog on his back leastways latterly. Ey, the braizzant taistrel med have done something for Ralph an he lived langer.
Garry and Tummel, Tweed and Tay he used to think of these as of something almost sacred; while even the name of that insignificant stream, the Water of Leith, sounded on his ear like sweet music, evoking a strangely tender and pathetic emotion.
How often and willingly do I not look again in fancy on Tummel, or Manor, or the talking Airdle, or Dee swirling in its Lynn; on the bright burn of Kinnaird, or the golden burn that pours and sulks in the den behind Kingussie!
'A short, stout-built, honest, Highland figure, the poet describes him, 'with his greyish hair shed on his honest, social brow an interesting face, marking strong sense, kind open-heartedness mixed with unmistaking simplicity. By the Tummel they rode to Blair, going by Fascally and visiting both those sentimental Jacobites 'the gallant Lord Dundee's stone, in the Pass of Killiecrankie.
On hearing this, and my horse being in need of bating, I halted at the ferry-house before crossing the Tay, assured by the boatman that I should be able to overtake the army long before it could reach the meeting of the Tummel and the Gary.
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