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342 between several great stones, which look as if they might have formed part of the chamber of a tumulus; and colour is given to this conjecture by a local saying that "it was where they buried the soldiers after a battle." Gold is also supposed to be buried there, and the place has a ghost.

Caves.—Not more than a hundred yards away from "The Round Tree" there is a kind of cave or hollow, with a great stone half-way across the opening; it is said to be the entrance to an underground passage leading to Minchinhampton. "In a time of battle, a queen took refuge there," said an old man in Hyde. There are terraces along the upper slope' of the hill from Hyde to Bestbury, with France Lynch and Oakridge Lynch on the opposite side of Brimscombe Valley.

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[The following story was told to me by a Laxey man, J. R. Moore, now in New Zealand, who said that he had heard it in his youth from old Manxmen. The Dooinney-Oie, or Night-Man, seems peculiar to the Isle of Man, though he bears a faint resemblance to the Irish banshee.]

Night-Man lived in a lonely cave, well hid on the side of Cronk-y-Thonna, and he would sit there looking out over the ling of Glen Roy, the ruddy glen, as they were calling it. No person would go near that cave except the most daring boys, and even they had often cause to regret that they had put a sight on the Night-Man's home. Sudden pains would sometimes warn them off, or they would sprain their wrists or ankles. The children out that way after blackberries or hazel nuts would always be careful to give the place a wide berth, as they would be told to mind for their lives not to go too near. But for all that the Dooinney-Oie was useful to the folk of Laxey and the gills around, for he would give them warning of the approach of storms and so save the lines, nets, and pots of the fishermen of Old