“Tobar Tàth sin, ’s tobar Tàth, Tobar aig an cuirear blàr, ’S bi cnaimhean nam fear fàs Air tràigh bhàn Laorais ’S marbhar Lachunn nan trì Lachunn Gu moch, moch, aig tobar Tàth. Al. Torcuil nan trì Torcuil.” [81] This stone is about ten ft. high, and is one of the three fragments into which a larger stone, used by an old woman of former days as a hammer to knock limpets off the rocks (_òrd bhàirneach_), was broken. Of the other two, one is in _Uigh an du tuath_, and one in Tarnsa Islet. At a spot from which these three fragments can be seen, there is hidden an urn of silver and an urn of gold (_croggan òir ’s cr. airgid_). It is easy to find a place whence one can see two, but when about to see the third, one of the first two disappears. Five or six yards make all the difference. A herdsman once found the spot, but when digging for the treasure he happened to see a heifer that had fallen on its back in a stream. He ran to its rescue, and never could find the place again. [82] _Càth_, prob. a step path in a rock. [83] “Bi muilionn air gach sruthan, Crann an laìmh gach giullain, Da thaobh Loch Tatha na ghàracha-càil, Cuiridh claigionn na caorach an crann o fheum, ’S cuiridh ite gèoidh an cuimhn’ a duine.” [84] Does this refer to excommunication? A candle was then extinguished in water. [85] Perhaps this means burial with the face downwards. The mother of an illegitimate child, which died in infancy, and the paternity of which was denied, declared if she had known that would be the case, she would have buried the child with its face downward. This was said to be in Tiree, but all the writer’s inquiries failed to find any one who had ever heard of such a thing being done. It is a saying “a down mouth to women if they are not to be found everywhere” (_Beul sìos air na mnathan, mar faighear ’s gach àit iad_). [86] “Nach faicear toradh ad ìm, no ìm ann ad bhainne.” [87] “Is tric a bha mise ’g imlich na mias agus a’ lomadh nan cnàmh an tigh t’ athar.” [88] “Ged thug mi biadh ’us càise ’s uibhean duit, air do dhà làimh, Iogain ’ic Iogain, chuir thu ’n gad roi mo dhòrn.” [89] The Mull doctor passed a house from which loud sounds of talking proceeded. He remarked that in that house were either twenty men or three women. [90] This was _Nial na Buaile_, who lived in a house alone several miles from any other house. The hollow is called _Sloc-an-tàilisg_. [91] See page 304. [92] ’S àrd mharcaich thu ’n raoir a Mhìcheil. Seall air do chois chlì. Ceil orm ’s ceilidh mi ort. [93] _Fiacaill storàch_ means a buck tooth. [94] “A nollaig mu dheire de’n cheud Cha chuir mi e’n aireamh na mias.” [95] “Ofhichier du Bhaile-chrodhain a bh’ann, Thréig e a bhean ’s a chlann Nan do thuit e’n cath na Fraing, Cha bhiodh an call co farranach.”