64 AXGLIXG SKETCHES 



On the occasions when they are not dour they 

 rise very pleasant and free, but, in these brief 

 moments, it is not of legends and folklore that 

 you are thinking, but of the landing-net. The 

 boatman, by the way, was either not well ac- 

 quainted with ^Idrchcn — Celtic nursery-tales such 

 as Campbell of Islay collected, or was not much 

 interested in them, or, perhaps, had the shyness 

 about narrating this particular sort of old wives' 

 fables which is so common. People who do know 

 them seldom tell them in Sassenach. 



