Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . portion of dialogue that I remember, not in thisversion. When the fox speaks to the wolf about thecliristening, the conversation goes on in this manner :— Madadh Ruadh. Och ! heun ! Alluidh. De tha thu faicinn Ruadh. Tha iad gam iarraidh gu gois-deachd. Madadh Alluidh. Och, och, ann d theid thu Ruadh. Och, och, theid. Fox. Och ! hein ! yonder. Wolf. What seest thou there ? Fox. Tliey are asking me to sponsorship. Wolf. Och ! och ! wilt thou go there % Fox. Och ! och ! I will. H. MacLean. See Xorse Tales
Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . portion of dialogue that I remember, not in thisversion. When the fox speaks to the wolf about thecliristening, the conversation goes on in this manner :— Madadh Ruadh. Och ! heun ! Alluidh. De tha thu faicinn Ruadh. Tha iad gam iarraidh gu gois-deachd. Madadh Alluidh. Och, och, ann d theid thu Ruadh. Och, och, theid. Fox. Och ! hein ! yonder. Wolf. What seest thou there ? Fox. Tliey are asking me to sponsorship. Wolf. Och ! och ! wilt thou go there % Fox. Och ! och ! I will. H. MacLean. See Xorse Tales, p. -172, where the creatures arefox and bear. The Boor and the Fiend, Grimm, jSTo. 189. Thenotes in vol. iii., Grimm, shew that this is widelyspread. See also IsTo. 2, Grimm, vol iii., where thecreatures in comj)any, in various versions, are cat andmouse, cock and hen, cock and fox. See also stories on Proverbs, 1854, London. Send not the cat for lard. The actors are akitten and a rat ; the scene, a belfry and a garret. WEST HIGHLAND TALES. ^^Ffè. Fox, HrxTEMAy, axd Falcon.—From a stone at Stones of Scotland, PI. xxvi. LXA^ FOX AXD THE LITTLE BOXXACH. From Hector Boyd, -n-ho learnt it from one John Campbell,wlio died tLree years ago, at the age of thirty—Sept. 20, 1860. npHE fox was once going o^er a locli, and there-*- met him a little bonnach, and the fox asked himwhere he was going. The little bonnach told him hew^as going to such a place. And whence earnest thou? said the fox. I came from Geeogan, and I came from Cooaig-EAX, and I came from the slab of the bonnach stone,and I came from the eye of the quern, and I will comefrom thee if I may, quoth the little bonnach. Well, I myself will take thee over on my back,said the fox. ThouTt eat me, thouIt eat me, quoth the littlebonnach. Come then on the tip of my tail, said the fox. Oh ! I w^ill not; thou wilt eat me, said the littleTjonnach. Coww into mv ear, said the fox. THE FOX AND THE LITT
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