The attempt to evict the Coigeach crofters must also be mentioned.
Here the people made a stout resistance, the women disarming about
twenty policemen and sheriff-officers, burning the summonses in a heap,
throwing their batons into the sea, and ducking the representatives
of the law in a neighbouring pool. The men formed the second line of
defence, in case the women should receive any ill-treatment. They,
however, never put a finger on the officers of law, all of whom
returned home without serving a single summons or evicting a single
crofter. The proceedings of her subordinates fortunately came to the
ears of the noble proprietrix, with the result that the Coigeach
tenants are still where they were, and are to-day among the most
comfortable crofters in the north of Scotland.