Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . ? There will not. Or dancing ? « No. Will there be drinking ? Oh ! that there will indeed. L. They will be so ^\iìd after the market that Icannot let you take the gig, unless a big man goeswith it; they would kill the boy and the horse. C. meets a most quiet, orderly, decorous set ofpoHte, civil men and women going to market with theirbeasts, and wonders. He remembers the old fun andfrolic of a Highland fair, the dancing, the games, theshinny, the processions, the races, the happy faces, thesober family parties returning home ; and if he
Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . ? There will not. Or dancing ? « No. Will there be drinking ? Oh ! that there will indeed. L. They will be so ^\iìd after the market that Icannot let you take the gig, unless a big man goeswith it; they would kill the boy and the horse. C. meets a most quiet, orderly, decorous set ofpoHte, civil men and women going to market with theirbeasts, and wonders. He remembers the old fun andfrolic of a Highland fair, the dancing, the games, theshinny, the processions, the races, the happy faces, thesober family parties returning home ; and if he does re-member to have heard of a drunken riot now and thenamongst the wilder spirits, that was not the prominentfeature of a Highland fair thirty years ago. At nighthe is told that if he persists in asking a man to playthe fiddle, the neighbours will certainly commit abreach of the peace. Wonders still more. A few WEST HIGHLAND STORIES. 333 dsLjs after he is overtaken by some very noisy, drunken,uncivil, riotous, quarrelsome creatures, who have not. Highland Family Party returning from the Fair after a Dance. From asketch from nature, 1S29. enough brains left to whistle a tune or to tell a storywithal, and therefore the suppression of innocent amuse-ment does not appear to him to have done much are men naturally polite, full of fun, wit, imagi-nation, and poetry, forced to let off all the steam atonce, and making beasts of themselves in consequence. Within a few miles, men who had not been tomarket were sober, pleasant, and amusing, repeatinggood poetry to a pleased audience, but they too werevery glad to have a dram. Mores the pity. Why should not the uneducated be taught with aliberal spirit Ì 334 MYTHOLOGY. But to return to the water-bull. The followingstory shews him as the friend of man, and the foe ofthe savage water-horse, and that is his usual characterin popular mythology. Xo. 383,—In one of the islands here (Islay), on thenorthern side, there lived be
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