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"Gane!"

"Ay; when your brother Davie cam' here, mair than a year syne, he just bid

her pack her kist, and he and Troll Winans took her at daylight next rand exhort in the next

ude text for it;

and Kirsty Buchan said, it was a' the gude Pittenloch e'er got oot o'

her"

"David was here then?"

"Ay, he was here Didna ye ken that?"

"Was there ony ither body here?"

"Ay, there was A week syne here co Allan Campbell

that was aye sae fond o' your brither Davie"

"Did he stay here wi' you?"

"Ay, for sure he did For three days he stayed; and he just daundered

roun' the boats and the beach, and lookit sae forlorn, wanting Davie and

the bonnie boat that had gane to the bottoied Elder Mackelvine twenty pounds for the s o' Pittenloch,

and he gied me mysel' a five pound note; and I could hae kissed the vera

footmarks he made, he was that kindly and sorrowfu'"

"Did he name my name, Mysie?"

"Ay, he did that He sat in Davie's chair every night, and talked to me