The beams and carlines were spattered with blood and brains.

Carline Thistle.

"Well," continued Tom, "after I'd been with 'em a couple of months or so, they kind er got a notion that I didn't care much about gittin' away, and didn't keep a very strict watch over me; so, one night, when I see Carline (that was my old rifle) lyin' by one of the lodges, I made up my mind to scoot.

' "'Aweel, then,' said the Scotchman firmly, 'sin ye will have it, by my saul, I won't go to heaven with a lie in my mouthI'm whig to the back-bone, ye carline; now do your warst, and be hanged till ye!'" "He might still have been a foe," remarked Wilson.

Sahwah, running onward, suddenly found herself in the very middle of the road where two carlines crossed each other.

The ceilings showed the uncovered, dark carlines or rafters.

[The Beltane cake and the Beltane carline (cailleach).

There was one particular piece which whoever got was called cailleach beal-tinei.e., the Beltane carline, a term of great reproach.

We may conjecture that the cake with knobs was formerly used for the purpose of determining who should be the "Beltane carline" or victim doomed to the flames.

514 Carline acaulis Stemless Carline l.b.s.

514 Carline acaulis Stemless Carline l.b.s.