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62 posture. He would have been thus conveyed, probably, say his friends, to America, if a lobster boat had not picked him up. Another idiot in Tochar was carried so far out to sea that he was only discovered by the sight of the sea-gulls hovering over him. He was found stretched out at ease singing songs.

The above miscellaneous gatherings are, so to speak, the flotsam and jetsam of the wild seas of the Outer Hebrides. They present, I believe, considerable material for the commentator and the comparative folklorist, but the task of discussion is one for which the present writer lacks—among other things—at this moment, leisure, though she looks forward to the attempt on some future occasion, and is content for the present to hope that others, better equipped, may find texts or illustrations for collections made in other fields, or stimulus to pursue further her own attempts in this.