[1] The narrative of Mr. Graves was written in the year 1898.
[2] In the light of subsequent events I have jotted down the materials
to which I refer. The last authentic record of the Brownie is in the
narrative of the shepherd of Clachlands, taken down towards the close of
last century by the Reverend Mr. Gillespie, minister of Allerkirk, and
included by him in his 'Songs and Legends of Glen Aller.' The
authorities on the strange carrying-away of children are to be found in
a series of articles in a local paper, the 'Allerfoot Advertiser,'
September and October 1878, and a curious book published anonymously at
Edinburgh in 1848, entitled 'The Weathergaw.' The records of the
unexplained murders in the same neighbourhood are all contained in Mr.
Fordoun's 'Theory of Expert Evidence,' and an attack on the book in the
'Law Review' for June 1881. The Carrickfey case has a pamphlet to
itself--now extremely rare--a copy of which was recently obtained in a
bookseller's shop in Dumfries by a well-known antiquary, and presented
to the library of the Supreme Court in Edinburgh.