THE WOLF. 171 



Other Gaelic names for the Wolf are madadh 

 alluidh, commonly used ; faol chu, and alia mhadadh, 

 all of which are composed of an epithet and a word 

 which now means dog.* It is also called faol and 

 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 



* Pinker-ton's " Enquiry into the Early History of Scotland," vol. ii. 

 P- 85- 

 t Campbell's " Tales of the West Highlands," vol. i. p. 274. 



