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 92 Collectanea.

O The single figures represent the centre X

O of each party X

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The players sit opposite each other. The first to play lays his pencil on one of his own "soldiers" and with a quick stroke, representing an arrow shot, runs it through the ranks of the enemy, trying to strike as many as he can. Otherwise the game is exactly as above, the captain however counting two.

ARCHERY.

(P. 45, after line 31.)

In the MS. poems collected by the Rev. James Maclagan, the following verse occurs in an ode in memory of Donald Gorm of Glengairy, composed by his widow. {Transactions Gaelic Society of Iftverness, xxii. 170) :

'* O's maith thig dhuit bogha Cruaidh foghainteach laidr, Agus teafaid chaol scorrach Bheireadh ceannuich a Flendras ; Mar re glac a chinn leathainn, 'N deis a fadhairt o'n chearduich ; Sud air geal-ghlac mo chridhe Dheanadh Siothann mar p' ail learn."