In the above case payment seems to have been in kind. A native of Ardnamurchan tells of a neighbour of her mother’s who had a number of cows and lost the due product of the whole of them. Her mother’s people were sitting down to dinner when a beggar woman came and asked, “_An sibhse a’ bhoirionnach a chaill an toradh?_” (“Are you the woman who has lost the milk and butter?”) “My mother was very fond of her neighbour, and thinking she might find out on her behalf how the milk might be got back, she answered that she was. The beggar woman said, ‘_Ma bheir sibh dhomh lan meise de mhin bheir mise air ais dhuibh e._’ (‘If you will give me a (wooden) dishful of meal I will bring it back to you.’) My mother said that she would give her all that was on the table if she would bring it back, and then ran to the neighbour’s house to tell what she had heard. They returned together and told the beggar woman whose cows really had been ill.” They are said to have been cured. Here also the payment was promised in kind. A native of Harris tells us of an old man in Stornoway much consulted, who “would undertake for so much money to bring milk and butter back.” An Islay man gives us “_ni a chunnaic mise mi fein_” (“a thing I saw my own self”). This was the cure of his father’s cow. A certain George T. “came the way” “_b’e duine corr bha ann an Deorsa so, aig an robh moran sgil mu’n chronachaidh_.” (“This George was a decent man, he had much skill about _cronachadh_.”) The cure is described, and the reciter continued: “_Cha b’e duine bha’ n an Deorsa a ghabhadh rud sam bith: ’se sin cha ghabhadh e pris airson a sheirbhis ann a leithid so do ni._” (“George was not a man that would take anything for his service in such a thing as this.”) “And my mother said to him, ‘Will you take a cup of tea, George?’ ‘It is I that will,‘ he said, for he had been about the cow a long time. When they were taking the tea they were keeping an eye on the cow now and again. She took a long time that she did not bend down her head, but at last she gave a shake to herself, and George said to my mother, ‘Your cow is right, woman.’ In a little while she gave the next shake, and again the third shake, and with that she was as well as she had ever been.” THE NECESSITY OF FAITH