...once the lurking foe ; From shingles grey their lances start, The bracken bush sends forth the dart, The rushes and the willow-wand Are bristling into...every tuft of broom gives life To plaided warrior arm'd for strife," * The Kelpie is a north-country demon, seldom appearing south of Aberdeen ; and...

...shingles grey their lances start, The bracken bush sends forth the dart, The rushes and the willow wand, Are bristling into axe and brand, And every tuft of...broom gives life To plaided warrior, armed for strife. INDEPENDENCE OF THE CLANS. 141 their own independence. When a chief was unfit for his situation, or...

...once the lurking foe ; From shingles gray their lances start, The bracken bush sends forth the dart; The rushes and the willow-wand Are bristling into axe and brand ; And every luft of broom gives life To plaided warrior, armed for strife." Every visiter here must remark the...

...once, the lurking foe ; From shingles gray their lances start, The bracken bush sends forth the dart, The rushes and the willow-wand Are bristling into...every tuft of broom gives life To plaided warrior arm'd for strife." It is said that to this powerful clan, the descendants of ancient Scottish kings,...

...shingles gray their lances start, The bracken bush sends forth the dart, The rushes and the willow- wand Are bristling' into axe and brand, And every tuft of broom gives life To plaided warrior arm'd for strife." It is said that to this powerful clan, the descendants of ancient Scottish kings,...

...once the lurking foe : From shingles gray their lances start, The bracken bush sends forth the dart, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean- host had given." The Amakosa collected silently on the slope, three or four hundred yards from us, in three dark columns....

...once the lurking foe ; From shingles grey their lances start, The bracken bush sends forth the dart,4 The rushes and the willow-wand Are bristling into axe and brand, And every tuft of broom gives life5 To plaided warrior arm'd for strife. That whistle garrison'd the glen At once with full five...

...onee the lurking foe ; From shingles gray their lances start, The bracken-bush sends forth the dart, The rushes and the willow-wand Are bristling into...every tuft of broom gives life To plaided warrior arm'd for strife. That whistle garrison'd the glen At once With full five hundred men, As if the yawning...

...times, viz., his despotic power in his clan " That whistle gnrrison'd the glen At once with full fire hundred men. As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had given. Watching their- leader's beck nnd will, All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose crags whose threatening muss Lay tottering...

...the dart, The rushes and the willow-wand AT* hristling into axe and hrand, And every tuft of hroom gives life To plaided warrior armed for strife. That whistle garrisoned the glen At once with full live hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A suhterranean host had given....