Notes on the District of Menteith, for tourists and others . and other portions of Holy Writ, all just as appo-site, to show that fairies are the dwellers inthe hidden recesses of the cane-brakes of or pigmies, it matters httle which theyare, whether in Corrientes or in Aberfoyle. Good Mr. Kirk, the painful preacher, isgone, as his son says, to his own herd,and is said to dwell in the centre of the FairyHill. Better that there he stays; and if he haslearned wisdom, he will never venture out man might easy travel far and fare much worsethan have his dwelling in the Fairy H
Notes on the District of Menteith, for tourists and others . and other portions of Holy Writ, all just as appo-site, to show that fairies are the dwellers inthe hidden recesses of the cane-brakes of or pigmies, it matters httle which theyare, whether in Corrientes or in Aberfoyle. Good Mr. Kirk, the painful preacher, isgone, as his son says, to his own herd,and is said to dwell in the centre of the FairyHill. Better that there he stays; and if he haslearned wisdom, he will never venture out man might easy travel far and fare much worsethan have his dwelling in the Fairy Hill. Of pigmies in the world there will always bea plenteous supply, but fairies tend to become lesscommon, even in Menteith. I do not mean to saya faiiy is of necessity a being opposed to wire fences first were used in Scotland somethirty years or so ago, horses turned out to grass inpastures generally ran into them and maimedthemselves. The more sagacious horse of modemtimes rarely or ever does so, but takes them into I I I- La ?>r<. MENTEITH 85 regular account with the other foolish devices con-trived by man to stop his grazing at his in good tirae the fairies will get accustomed tochanged conditions, and dance as merrily upon thegirders of a railway bridge as formerly upon thegrass and tussocks. The motley elements whichwent to make the history of Menteith are gone andburied, but their shadows still remain. The Earlsof Menteith, from Gillechrist to the Beggar Earl,the fairies, the Rev. Mr. Kirk, Rob Roy, the monksof Inchmahome, the Romans, Peghts, the Caledo-nian cattle, with the wolves, John Graham ofClaverhouse and I^Iary Queen of Scots, have leftMenteith for ever, but the shadow of their passagestill remains ; at least I see it. Life is a dream, they say, but dreams have theirawakening. A shadow, when it passes over thebents so brown, across the heather, and steals intothe corries of the hills, returns no more. Only areflection of the clo
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