ON THE ETHNOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. 613 
Eleven measurements of males and ten of females were obtained, along 
with some folklore. 
Some items of folklore have not been communicated to the Com- 
mittee, as I wish to make further investigation into them. It will be 
seen that twenty-eight measurements of males and twelve of females—in 
all forty—have been obtained, along with a considerable amount of folk- 
lore. The items of folklore which follow are numbered for facility of 
reference, and the place where each was obtained is indicated at the 
commencement of the paragraph. 
I have only to add that nothing could exceed the kindness and 
courtesy with which I was received by all, and the readiness with which 
all gave themselves to be measured, and that all were much interested in 
the survey. 
1. Mochrum. ‘ Marget Totts.’—Once on a time a man was very hard 
towards his wife, and laid tasks on her no one could accomplish. He 
at one time gave her such a quantity of flax to spin within a fixed time 
that the work was beyond human power. As she was sitting in the 
house bemoaning herself, and thinking of what was to be done, a woman 
entered. Seeing her in great distress and perplexity, she asked her what 
was the matter with her. She told her of the task that had been laid 
on her by her husband. The stranger said to her: ‘I'll tack awa’ yir 
lint an spin’t t? you, an bring’t back t’ you on such and such a day 
(naming the day), if ye can tell me my name.’ The guidwife agreed at 
once, and gave the woman the lint. But she was now in as great straits 
as ever, and could in no way come to her apparent friend’s name, and the 
day on which the lint was to be brought back was drawing near. As she 
was one day sitting at her wits’ end in the house a man came in. He 
asked her what ailed her that she was looking so cast down and sad. She 
told him all her tale. Now near the house there was a small hill covered 
with thorn bushes and whins. The man told her to go to this hill and 
hide herself among the bushes near an open space on it, and she would 
hear something to help her. She did as she was told. She had not 
been long in her hiding-place till a lot of fairy women came with their 
spinning wheels and sat down on the open space not far from her. She 
saw her friend amongst them. As she span she went on saying, ‘ Little 
does the guidwife ken it my name’s Marget Totts.’ The woman with- 
drew without being seen by the fairies. The day fixed for bringing 
back the yarn came, and the woman appeared with it. ‘Here’s yir yarn, 
if ye can tell me what my name is.’ ‘ Your name’s Marget Totts,’ said 
the guidwife. The spinner went up the lum in a blaze of fire, and left 
the yarn. 
2. Mochrum.—The Brownie is believed to be, for the most part, of a 
kind, obliging disposition. 
A Brownie that bore the name of Aikendrum went one day to the 
mill of Birhosh and offered his services to the guidwife on the sole con- 
dition of getting a ‘cogful o’ brose each evening atween the licht an the 
dark’ as his wages. He took in hand for this wages to bring all the grain 
into the stackyard and to thresh it, and to gather the sheep into the ‘rees.’ 
The guidwife was ouite keen for keeping him, but the daughters objected 
as no wooers would come to the house so long as Aikendrum was in it. 
The mother ordered silence, and took the Brownie into service. The 
harvest was late, and he began his work at once. Within a short time 
all the grain was safe in the stackyard. One evening he was ordered to 
