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called Callum Beg, or little Malcolm ; and there is 
reason to believe that he was one of those who 
fought in the famous battle of the Inch of Perth in 
the reign of Robert IIT. (1390-1406.) 
In the districts where Wolves last abounded, says 
Stuart in the ‘“ Lays of the Deer Forest,” many 
traditions of their history and haunts have descended 
to our time. The greatest number preserved in one 
circle were in the neighbourhood of Strath Earn. 
At Inver-Rua, on the Spean, and consequently 
within the lands of Keppach, there lived a Campbell 
of the Shoched Chailein Mhic-Dhonnacha, or Glen 
Urcha race. Although thus a tenant of one of the 
principal branches of the Clan Donald, and removed 
to the distance of forty miles from his cean tighe, he 
continued to pay his “ calps” to his blood chief, the 
Knight of Loch Awe. This tax was a heifer, which 
was paid annually, and it happened one year that a 
short time before it fell due, the beast was killed on 
her pasture and half eaten by a Wolf. Campbell 
left what remained to tempt his return, and on the 
following night, watching the carcase, he shot the 
Wolf from behind a stone. Not being able, however, 
to afford another ‘ calp,” he flayed the dead heifer, 
and sent the torn hide to MacChailein Mhic- 
Donnacha, with a message that it was all which he 
had to show for his “calp;” upon which the chief 
observed, that he had sent sufficient parchment to 
write his discharge. 
This is said to have happened in the time of Sir 
Duncan Campbell, called “ Donacha dubh w Cur- 
