Angling sketches . ying, Tighten,hare, tighten ! and it was choking them. So hetore the hare off the dogs ; and then the old womanbegged him to save her from them, and she pro-mised never to plague him again. But if the olddogs teeth had been as sharp as the young ones,she would have been a dead woman. When this witch died she knew she could neverlie in safety in her grave ; but there was a verysafe churchyard in Aberdeenshire, a hundred andfifty miles away, and if she could get into that shewould be at rest. And she rose out of her grave,and off she went, and the Devil after her, on a blackho
Angling sketches . ying, Tighten,hare, tighten ! and it was choking them. So hetore the hare off the dogs ; and then the old womanbegged him to save her from them, and she pro-mised never to plague him again. But if the olddogs teeth had been as sharp as the young ones,she would have been a dead woman. When this witch died she knew she could neverlie in safety in her grave ; but there was a verysafe churchyard in Aberdeenshire, a hundred andfifty miles away, and if she could get into that shewould be at rest. And she rose out of her grave,and off she went, and the Devil after her, on a blackhorse ; but, praise to the swiftness of her feet, shewon the churchyard before him. Her first graveswelled up, oh, as high as that green hillock! Witches are still in active practice. There wasan old woman very miserly. She would alway betaking one of her neighbours sheep from the hills,and they stood it for long ; they did not like tomeddle with her. At last it grew so bad that they ?-??rtaCyia«(>S3fei.^ii. LOCH AWE . 6l brought her before the sheriff, and she got eighteenmonths in prison. When she came out she wasvery angry, and set about making an image of thewoman whose sheep she had taken. When theimage was made she burned it and put the ashesin a burn. And it is a very curious thing, butthe woman she made it on fell into a decline, andtook to her bed. The witch and her family went to kept a little inn, in a country place, andpeople who slept in it did not come out were discovered, and the eldest son washang-ed ; he confessed that he had committednineteen murders before he left Scotland. They were not a nice family. The father was a very respectable old man. The boatman gave me the name of this wickedhousehold, but it is perhaps better forgotten. The extraordinary thing is that this appears tobe the Highland introduction to, or part first of, agloomy and sanguinary story of a murder hole—aninn of assassins in a lonely district of the UnitedState
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