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A collection of Highland legends and rural sketches that blends atmospheric landscape description with folk narratives and explanatory anecdotes. Individual stories range from a dramatic account in which a large bird seizes an infant and villagers pursue to recover the child, to episodes involving storms, unwelcome visitors, altered acquaintances, and reflections on place-names and domestic comforts. The pieces interleave supernatural motifs, local tradition, and everyday observation, moving between narrated incidents, moral reflection, and concise origin-tales that evoke community memory and the region's natural setting.

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Title: Legendary Tales of the Highlands (Volume 2 of 3)

Author: Sir Thomas Dick Lauder

Release date: February 21, 2019 [eBook #58931]

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LEGENDARY TALES OF THE HIGHLANDS (VOLUME 2 OF 3) ***

LEGENDARY

TALES OF THE HIGHLANDS.

VOL. II.

LEGENDARY
TALES OF THE HIGHLANDS.
A SEQUEL TO
HIGHLAND RAMBLES.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOLUME II.
LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,
GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
M.DCCC.XLI.

Printed in Great Britain.

CONTENTS
OF THE
SECOND VOLUME.

       PAGE

THE LEGEND OF CHARLEY STEWART TÀILLEAR-CRUBACH,        1

A TEMPEST,        79

THE LEGEND, &c.—Continued,        82

AN UNWELCOME VISITOR,        150

THE LEGEND, &c.—Continued,        152

AN OLD FRIEND WITH A NEW FACE,        207

THE LEGEND, &c.—Continued,        217

THE AUTHOR FLOORED,        289

A DAY BAD FOR ONE THING MAY BE VERY GOOD FOR ANOTHER,        290

ORIGIN OF THE NAME OF INCHRORY,        292

COMFORTS OF A FIRESIDE,        293

ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE BETTER PART OF VALOUR IS DISCRETION,        71

THE HOWLET,        114