[Reciter don’t understand gnathach, common.] Mother:--Se mo leanabh ruiteach (colour ruddy) Reamhar molteach Miuthear mo luachair Ohog ri mnathan M’ eòin ’us m’ uighean On thug thu muine leat ’Us maire leat ’Us mo chrodh lùigh ’Us mo lochraidh leat. Mother:--Bha thu fo ’m chrios an uire ’S tha thu ’m bliadhna Gu cruinn buanach Air mo guailain Feadh a bhaile. Fairy:--Thug go gu gŏrach (fat, Reciter) Mnath ’n òg a bhaile Lan _shaochail_[36] uimach Thug go gu gŏrach Le ’n ciabhan dhonna Le ’n ciabhan troma [He said at first somewhere, “Le ’n ciochan corrach”? place.] Thug go gu gŏrach ’S le ’n suilean donna Mother:--Se sin Leoid Na lorg ’s na luireach Se Lochlan bu duchas dhuit O fire fire nì mi uimad Cireadh do chinn Ni mi uimad. Fairy:--Fire fire nì mi uimad Cha tu an uan beag Ni mi uimad Crodh ’us caorich Ni mi uimad. Mother:--Fire fire ni mi uimad Breachan chaola Ni mi uimad Fire fire ni mi uimad A bhog mhiladh (? fileadh. Oh soft soldier, soft mine own) O bhòg ’s leam thu O bhog mhilidh bhog Mo bhrù a rug O bhog mhilidh bhog Mo chioch a thug O bhog mhilidh bhog Mo gluin a thog O bhog mhilidh Bho ’s leam thu. Fairy:--B’ fheàrr leam gu faic mi do bhuaille Gu àrd àrd an iomal sleibhe Còta geal cateanach[37] uaine Mu do ghuailain ghil ’us léine. Nurse:--B’ fhearr leam gu faichean do sheisearach Fir na deance (?) a cuit shil Gu rò do cheol air feadh do thalla (land or hall) Leann bhi ga gabhail le fìon Bhog mhilidh bhog ’S leam thu. And so she says a verse each day, and if that would not do, she came the next and made another, and the little lad made out the song which he sat and heard. When the child was baptized she went away and never came back again. * * * * * N.B.--I have set the verses to each character as best I could, not knowing much about it except the last two, these the reciter placed. NOTES: _The Fairy Song_ in the MS. is most difficult to read. It was written phonetically, and is now in some places indistinct. The following transliteration and translation by Mr. Duncan Mac Isaac, of Oban, show a probable reading, and this may be enough, in view of the spell-words of the fairy, whose mystic diction appears to have been of a conservative quality, and to have affected the responses of the infant’s mother.--[A. C.]