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CHAPTER XVIII. 



SUPERSTITIONS. 



BUT after the different things I have said of 

 the Lews, some account ought to be given 

 of the quaint superstitions and stories of that 

 country. I am not going to touch upon any 

 part of that field of second-sight and Highland 

 seers so ably described by many other writers ; 

 but suffer me to tell two or three stories, or 

 rather meander away upon different stories and 

 incidents that came under my own immediate 

 knowledge. 



Now, I don't pretend to be a hero in the 

 dark ; I had rather walk by day than night any 

 time, and I don't think it at all pleasant being 

 by oneself in a lone corner of a house or muir 

 — above all things, on a good high road in the 

 neighbourhood of a large town, manufacturing 

 or otherwise, between twelve and two in the 

 morning — say from the " Peacock " at Isling- 

 ton to the Edgware Road ; or from the Regent's 

 Park country to the top of Portland Place. But 



