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called Callum Beg, or little Malcolm ; and there is 

 reason to believe that he was one of those who 

 fought in the famous battle of the Inch of Perth in 

 the reign of Robert III. (i 390-1406.) 



In the districts where Wolves last abounded, says 

 Stuart in the " Lays of the Deer Forest," many 

 traditions of their history and haunts have descended 

 to our time. The greatest number preserved in one 

 circle were in the neighbourhood of Strath Earn. 



At Inver-Rua, on the Spean, and consequently 

 within the lands of Keppach, there lived a Campbell 

 of the Slioched Chailein Mhic-Dhonnacha, or Glen 

 Urcha race. Although thus a tenant of one of the 

 principal branches of the Clan Donald, and removed 

 to the distance of forty miles from his cean tighe, he 

 continued to pay his " calps " to his blood chief, the 

 Knight of Loch Awe. This tax was a heifer, which 

 was paid annually, and it happened one year that a 

 short time before it fell due, the beast was killed on 

 her pasture and half eaten by a Wolf. Campbell 

 left what remained to tempt his return, and on the 

 following night, watching the carcase, he shot the 

 Wolf from behind a stone. Not being able, however, 

 to afford another " calp," he flayed the dead heifer, 

 and sent the torn hide to MacChailein Mhic- 

 Donnacha, with a message that it was all which he 

 had to show for his " calp ;" upon which the chief 

 observed, that he had sent sufficient -parchment to 

 write his discharge. 



This is said to have happened in the time of Sir 

 Duncan Campbell, called " Donacha dubh a' Cur- 



