CHAPTER VII.--LEGENDS AND LITERARY NOTABILIA, 278 Gairloch folk-lore: Prince Olaf and his bride--A laird who had seen a fairy--Tales from Loch Broom: The dance of death--The Kildonan midwife--The magic herring--Taisch--Antiquities of Dunvegan--Miscellaneous terrors--St. Kilda--Lady Grange--Pierless Tiree--Lochbuie in Mull--Inveraray Castle--The sacred isle--Appin--Macdonald's gratitude--Notes on the Trossachs--Lochfyneside: Macivors, Macvicars, and Macallisters--Red Hector--Macphail of Colonsay--Tales from Speyside: Tom Eunan!--Shaws and Grants--The wishing well--Ossian and Macpherson--At the foot o' Bennachie--Harlaw--Lochaber reivers--Reay and Twickenham--Rob Donn--Rev. Mr. Mill of Dunrossness. CHAPTER VIII.--METRICAL AND SUPPLEMENTARY, 340 Arrival of the Mail-train at a Highland Station--Defoe, the Father of Journalism--A Village Toper--A Reverend Hellenist--Antigone--Shadows of the Manse--"My Heart's in the Highlands"--Saddell, Kintyre--Springtime in Perthshire--Dr. George Macdonald's Creed--Abbotsford--Carlyle--Shelley--Picture in an Inn--Rain-storm at Loch Awe--Kinlochewe--General Wade--Sound of Raasay in December--Les Neiges d' Antan--The Islands of the Ness--American Tourist Loquitur--The Miners--In a Country Graveyard--No Place like Home. INDEX, 369 LITERARY TOURING. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. Village libraries--Difficulties of travel--Literary Societies in the Highlands--Gaelic books--Happiness and geniality of natives--Oban to Gairloch--Winter sailing--A crofting village--Horrors of the Minch--Notes on Lewis--Highland doctors--Hotels and anglers--Recent books--Military--Moray Firth--Among the miners--Handloom weaving--Professor Blackie and the Highlands. VILLAGE LIBRARIES.