164 SPORTSMEN STRUCK BY A THUNDERBOLT. 



Fraser. The men were driven abroad, as if an engine of 

 war had burst amongst them : each had received a violent 

 shock all of them in the legs ; but, providentially, no one 

 had sustained a serious injury. When the first surprise 

 was over, they began to try their powers of moving. 

 Fraser limped like Vulcan ; but after certain moans, and a 

 little rubbing of their legs, and skipping about to try their 

 powers, all were soon sensible that they were as sound as 

 ever. 



It was evident, from their yelling, that the dogs had 

 received a violent shock also. 



The hurricane now bore away, raging and driving onward 

 to the west. The peals were longer, but less loud. Then 

 came down the rear storm in one continuous sheet of 

 water, and soon the awful voice died away in distant mur- 

 murs. The weather gleam began faintly to appear behind 

 Ben-y-gloe, growing more vivid as the dark mass rolled 

 onward; at last, the sun broke forth once more the 

 winds were at rest and all around looked serene and fair 

 as in the morning. You would not have known that this 

 thing had been, but for the small pools, or lappies, as they 

 are called, which now glittered in the sun, and the streams 

 working their way rapidly through the bogs, and coursing 

 down to the burns. Those burns which but a short hour 

 ago crept lazily through the mossy stones, were now filled 

 with a raging, turbid torrent, rolling onwards, irresistible 

 in its course, as the lava-streams of a volcano; all then 

 is passed, and the moor is still again. 



" You're no thinking of the taishe now, Peter." 



" Ou ! but I'm thinking my legs are all arred, and that 

 the fire-naught is in them still, and will no be out of them 



