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them when Colla MacLeod, tlie cltief of the Harris 

 gang, cliopped liis left liaiul off and flunii- it ashore 

 over the heads of his competitors, and secured St. 

 Kilda and its satellites to himself and his descendants 

 for all time. 



^ly friend Mackenzie says that the progenitors 

 of the St. Kildans were undoubtedly transported 

 from Skye by the Chief of ^lacLeod for various 



offences, and in 

 evidence of tliis 

 |)oints out that 

 whenever there 

 is a row in that 

 island the re- 

 storers of peace 

 will still threaten 

 to send the dis- 

 turbers to St. 

 Kilda. Further, 

 that mothers say 

 to their children 

 when they are 

 troublesome, " If 

 you don't be quiet, I'll send you to St. Kilda," just 

 as a Lancashire dame will terrify her unruly off- 

 spring by threatening them with the bogie man. 



The order of things in St. Kilda is sometimes 

 a good deal reversed. T^or instance, the men make 

 all the women's clothes, whilst their future wearers 

 dig the potato-beds or pull dock-leaves for tlu^ cows. 

 As a result of tliis, tlie dresses are neither i'asliiou- 

 ably made nor very close-fitting. 1 saw one )'oung 

 woman in churcli with her frock skirt hung upon 

 her hips by tlu^ aid of a large French nail, the 

 head and an inch oi- so of Avhich protruded ;nvk- 

 wardly from lli<' material il was pinning together. 



ST. KILDA BROOCH. 



