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 62 Collectanea.

" Once old D. P. M'Donald was driving over Banavie Moss when he saw one of his own men with a cart drawn up at the side of the road as if he were waiting for something. So Mr. M'Donald called out and asked him what he was waiting for, and the man called back, 'I'm waiting to let the funeral by.' Well there was not a funeral anywhere in sight, and old D. P. drove on, thinking the man was drunk, and leaving him waiting there. That night the man was drowned in the locks, and his own funeral was the next to come over Banavie Moss.

"The other one is this, and was told me by our lad Duncan as we were driving into Spean one day. We were passing the ' resting cairn ' that was put up about seven years ago for old Campbell of Lowbridge, and Duncan said that one night just before it was put up he and Wallace (the Glenfintaig keeper) were walking home from Fort-Augustus, and they were so tired with the long tramp that they sat down to rest on the place where the cairn now is, and as they were sitting there they heard the voices of Duncan's father and Donald Campbell (Lowbridge's son) down by the burn below, and they could hear them throwing the stones about and talking quite plainly. So Duncan called out to his father, and getting no answer he got up and went down the bank to the burn, and when he got there he could still hear the talking and the stones being moved about, but there was no one there. Then he felt frightened and ran back to Wallace, who also had felt scared and had run off along the road, so Duncan took to his heels and never stopped till he got home, where he found his father in bed and asleep, and no doubt Donald Campbell was similarly employed. Well, the next day old Campbell died quite sud- denly and on the day he was buried he was 'rested' by that burn and Duncan's father and Donald Campbell were the two to go down to the burn and throw up the stones for the others to put up the cairn with.

Dora Bailey." Invergloy, nth November, 1904.