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feir woman ; " with passion so intense that the King 

 of Terrors became its feeble vassal ; and with those 

 dreams of unearthly love and undying sorrow, which 

 passed ever and anon over the hillside where the 

 hunted marauder lay. I was too young to care much 

 for the interesting fact that there was a ford beneath, 

 where Scotch lasses, 



" A' plump and strapping in their teens," 



stripped off their shoes and stockings to wade over. 

 It was better to remember that it was the stream of 

 Thomas the Rhymer which murmured by, and to 

 fancy him meeting the Queen of Elfland in her grass- 

 green silk : 



" ' Harp and carp, Thomas,' she said, 



' Harp and carp alang wi' me ; 

 And if ye daur to kiss my lips, 

 Sure of your bodie I will be. ' 



' Betide me weal, betide me woe, 

 That weird shall never daunton me.' 



Syne he has kissed her rosy lips, 

 All underneath the Eildon tree. " 



Then there was the five-storeyed wooden tower 

 from which the Jam of Bela looks over the flaming 

 wilds of Beloochistan, and marks the cajjilali which 

 he thinks may safely become his prey. When 

 Balooch Khan struck first his shield and then his 

 breast as he offered to protect me, while I put up 

 a devout internal prayer for protection from him, 



