Groups of children followed us from every wayside clachan, so that we gave great entertainment to the dwellers in Lothian that day.

and he left the clachan at once.

The opening of coal-pits in Douray Moor brought great prosperity to the parish, but the coal-carts cut up the roads, especially the Vennel, a narrow and crooked street in the clachan.

Three brave young fellows belonging to the clachan, who had gone as soldiers in America, were killed in battle with the rebels, for which there was great grief.

Weavers of muslin were brought to the mill, and women to teach the lassie bairns in our old clachan tambouring instead of hand-spinning.

" "I am ashamed to look no man in the face," said Robin Oig, something moved; "and, moreover, I will look you in the face this blessed day, if you will bide at the Clachan down yonder.

" "Na, na, Hughie Morrison is no the man for pargainsye maun come to some Highland body like Robin Oig hersell for the like of these;put I maun be wishing you good night, and twenty of them, let alane ane, and I maun down to the Clachan to see if the lad Henry Waakfelt is out of his humdudgeons yet.

Mrs. Browning, Dead Pan, 17. DODS (Meg), landlady of the Clachan or Mowbery Arms inn at St. Ronan's Old Town.