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them when Colla MacLeod, the chief of the Harris 

 gang, chopped his left hand off and flung it ashore 

 over the heads of his competitors, and secured St. 

 Kilda and its satellites to himself and his descendants 

 for all time. 



My friend Mackenzie says that the progenitors 

 of the St. Kildans were undoubtedly transported 

 from Skye by the Chief of MacLeod for various 



_________ offences, and in 



evidence of this 

 points out that 

 whenever there 

 is a row in that 

 island the re- 

 storers of peace 

 will still threaten 

 to send the dis- 

 turbers to St. 

 Kilda. Further, 

 that mothers say 

 to their children 

 when they are 

 troublesome, "If 



you don't be quiet, I'll send you to St. Kilda," just 

 as a Lancashire dame will terrify her unruly off- 

 spring by threatening them with the bogie man. 



The order of things in St. Kilda is sometimes 

 a good deal reversed. For instance, the men make 

 all the women's clothes, whilst their future wearers 

 dig the potato-beds or pull dock-leaves for the cows. 

 As a result of this, the dresses are neither fashion- 

 ably made nor very close-fitting. I saw one young 

 woman in church with her frock skirt hung upon 

 her hips by the aid of a large French nail, the 

 head and an inch or so of which protruded awk- 

 wardly from the material it was pinning together. 



8T. KILDA BROOCH. 



