The tinkler-gypsies . but beware how you try mefurther ! Sionach, we will withdraw a your sword in hand. This man is un-armed ; he cannot harm you. He motionedback the crowd ; Sionach and Trost were leftstanding alone. Trost, with hands behind hisback, turned to walk along the brow ; the druidfollowed him warily. But not warily enoughfor the old hunter. Where the cliff wassteepest, the brink most abrupt, Trost turnedlike a flash, wrapped his sinewy arms round thedruid, crying out, The secret dies !—nextmoment both men disappeared over the edgeand were never seen again. A cry of baff
The tinkler-gypsies . but beware how you try mefurther ! Sionach, we will withdraw a your sword in hand. This man is un-armed ; he cannot harm you. He motionedback the crowd ; Sionach and Trost were leftstanding alone. Trost, with hands behind hisback, turned to walk along the brow ; the druidfollowed him warily. But not warily enoughfor the old hunter. Where the cliff wassteepest, the brink most abrupt, Trost turnedlike a flash, wrapped his sinewy arms round thedruid, crying out, The secret dies !—nextmoment both men disappeared over the edgeand were never seen again. A cry of baffledrage broke from the crowd. Many agreeablevisions of rivers of good liquor to be brewedfrom the herbage under their feet were shattered,and from that day to this no man has everrevived the art of brewing ale from heather : But now in vain is the torture,Fire shall never avail ;Here dies in my bosomThe secret of heather ale. ^2> Little did William Marshall dream, when heput his arm round his consort Katies Scot and Pict Wedded. 495 what an emblem of peace his strong armrepresented—a possible representative of thePicts and of the last reputed king of the Picts,swearing fealty to a possible representative of Nial of the Nine Hostages, and of theconquering Scots who overwhelmed the could hardly have expected the happyresult to come about without a protest. Nordid it ; for when William put his arm round hisconsorts neck, she uttered this mild protest, Yere no aye sae kind to me when were gaunlie at nicht. Gypsies have peculiar views of family relation-ships, ^ old Sarah Boswell of Blackpool wasknown amongst the English Gypsies as myAunt Sara- There is also a similar loose useof the w^ord uncle amongst them—^^illiamMarshall once gave me the word sister as anequivalent for the word wife ^and in viewof the fact that history shows that the ScotNials conquered the Pict Marshalls, it is acurious coincident that WilHam Marshall shouldsay— I ca her (alludin
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