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fathoms. Into this hole they emptied the fourteen 

 barrels of hot lime. 



It is needless to say that the Beast was not discovered, 

 nor has it been further disturbed up to the present time. 

 There are rumours that the Beast was seen in 1884 in 

 another loch on the Greenstone Point. There was one 

 curious fact about this kelpie hunt — viz., that the 

 eccentric English laird who started it was cam (one- 

 eyed), the tinker who soldered the pipes together was 

 cam, so was the old horse which worked the pumps, 

 and it was altogether such a gnothach cam (one-eyed 

 business) that people began to wonder whether, if the 

 Each Uisge were ever captured, it might not prove to 

 be cam also ! 



So angry was the laird at his failure to capture the 

 kelpie that he was determined to avenge himself on 

 something or someone ; and at last he decided to wreak 

 his vengeance on the unfortunate crofters whose town- 

 ships were in the vicinity of the loch. Unlike the kelpie 

 they, poor wretches, could not escape him, so he fined 

 them all round a pound a head, which in those days, 

 when money was so scarce, meant a great deal to them ! 



