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" And. then along the plane stanes 

 Like a provost he would go ; 

 Oh ! we ne'er shall see the like 

 Of Captain Paton no mo'." 



PKOFESSOB WILSON". 



The Black Dog of Tain A Jockey Club Wanderer on Morich Mhor 

 Ross-shire Tod-hunters The Crofters Flocks in Easter Ross From 

 Tain to Dingwall Coul Cottage The Black Isle Belmaduthy 

 The Muir of Ord The Caledonian Boots Highland Society's Shows 

 Inverness Character Fair Hugh Snowie's Stags' Heads Laggan 

 Cottage Nairnshire Lord Cawdor's Old Scotch Flock Kildrummie 

 and Lochdhu The late Billhead Herd The Witches' Heath. 



UNSETTLED spirits have been said to roam the earth 

 ^ in the shape of a black dog. At all events, we 

 were formally taken in charge by the latter when 

 we reached Tain ; and it never left our side till it 

 lured us, as it had done scores of visitors before, into 

 its fancy baker's, and made us buy it a bun. It was the 

 only black mail levied on us throughout our wander- 

 ings, and as such it deserves recording. Before the 

 railway days, it was easy enough to find your way 

 into Tain from .the ferry by moonlight, but even in 

 daylight it is not so easy to work outwards. What 

 seems the straight road to Inverness really leads on 

 to the Morich Mhor, a large sandy flat, where the 



