THE WOLF. I7E 
Other Gaelic names for the Wolf are madadh 
alluidh, commonly used ; faol chu, and alla mhudadh, 
all of which are composed of an epithet and a word 
which now means dog.* It is also called faol and 
ce 
mac tire, ‘‘ earth’s son.’’t 
In Scrope’s “ Days of Deer-Stalking” (p. 109) is 
related an adventure with a Wolf that happened to 
Macpherson of Braekaely, when he had charge of the 
forest of Benalder, and was furnished to the author 
by Cluny Macpherson, chief of Clanchattan. 
“ He sallied forth one morning, as he was wont, in 
quest of venison, accompanied by his servant. In 
the course of their travel, they found a Wolf den—a 
Wolf being at that time by no means a rarity in the 
forest. Macpherson asked his servant whether he 
would prefer going into the den to destroy the cubs, 
or remaining outside to guard against the approach 
of the old ones. The servant, preferring what 
appeared to be an uncertain to a certain danger, 
said he would remain without; but here Sandy had 
miscalculated, for, to his great dismay, the dam came 
raging to the mouth of the cave, which no sooner did 
he see than he took to his heels incontinently, 
without even warning his master of the danger. 
Macpherson, however, being an active, resolute man, 
and expert at his weapons, succeeded in killing the 
old Wolf as well as the cubs.” 
This Macpherson of Braekaely was commonly 
* Pinkerton’s “ Enquiry into the Early History of Scotland,” vol. it. 
p. 85. 
dy 
+ Campbell’s “ Tales of the West Highlands,” vol. i. p. 274. 
