[1] Not published yet.
[2] Parching.
[3] Chill.
[4] A tidy young woman.
[5] The Egyptian Hagar was a foreigner, not a free-born; so is the
English not to be permitted to assume authority, but to keep her own
place as a slave, and not as the mistress.
[6] A word taken from _gruag_ (hair), and given to females on account of
the long hair which they wear, and means a young woman, also a household
goddess, and is often used in irony, as here.
[7] Elizabeth, the Queen of England.
[8] Mary, a name given to the Gaelic, which was the name of the Queen of
the Scots whom Elizabeth beheaded.
[9] A loch between Athole and Strathardle.
[10] The Atholites used to provoke the Ardleites with a tune which they
played on the bagpipes when leaving them—_Bodaich dhubh Sratharduil, gu’n
d’fhag sinn nan cadal iad_—The black churls of Strathardle we have left
them asleep. In the Free Church of Kirkmichael, Strathardle, there has
been no Gaelic preached for several years, and it is going and almost
gone in the Established Church. I wish with all my heart that a company
of the Atholites would cross over with a piper at their head, and play
the following on the street of Kirkmichael:—
Bodaich dhubh Srathàrduil,
Cha Ghàel iad ach Sasannuich,
Thréig iad mar na tràillean
Cainnte bhlath an athraichean.