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and gave him the land called Sean-achan for meal to 
his dogs.” 
Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, in his ‘‘ Account of the 
Moray Floods of August, 1829,” tells the story of 
the Wolf killed in that district by MacQueen of 
Pall-A-chrocain, but lays the scene of the exploit in 
the parish of Moy, in the county of Inverness, which, 
although within the bounds of the ancient province 
of Moray, is far beyond the present limits of the 
forest of Tarnaway. 
Sir Thomas gives the very words which MacQueen 
is said to have used in describing to the chief of 
MacIntosh how he killed the wolf: “As I came 
through the slochk (i.e, ravine) by east the hill 
there,” said he, as if talking of some everyday occur- 
rence, “I foregathered wi’ the beast. My long dog 
there turned him. I buckled wi’ him, and dirkit 
him, and syne whuttled his craig (ze, cut his 
throat), and brought awa’ his countenance for fear he 
might come alive again, for they are very precarious 
creatures.” In reward for his bravery, his chief 
is said to have bestowed on him a gift of the lands of 
Sean-achan “to yield meal for his good greyhounds in 
all time coming.” Sir Thomas Lauder has preserved 
another tradition of the extirpation of the Wolf in 
Morayshire, when two old Wolves and their cubs were 
killed by one man in a ravine under the Knock of 
Braemory, near the source of the Burn of Newton. 
In the old “Statistical Account of Scotland,” 
edited by Sir John Sinclair, and published in 
twenty-one volumes between the years 1791 and 
