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376 was lifted on his back, the man gave the same sort of pant as before. His neighbour, who was present, remembered what had happened when they were coming home late.

Some other illustrations of second-sight come from the same source, and I give them, as far as possible, in the narrator's own words.

IV. "In one parish in the North, two men were out fishing when the boat capsized and both were drowned. One of the bodies was recovered, the other not. Several days after, a man in the parish dreamed that the body was to be got in a certain creek. In the morning he went off to search for it, and on his way met two men, to whom he told his dream. They followed him, and found the body at the place which he had spoken of."

V. "In the West Highlands, where I was last summer, the people of the district have been advocating for a railway for many years. I remarked to one of them, that it looked as if they were not to get it. 'It looks doubtful,' said he, 'but we will get it yet: I am sure of that.' 'How are you so sure?' I asked. He said, that he and and another man were walking along the road in the dark, when they both saw, quite distinctly, a train passing them, and even observed it puffing."

VI. "A man from our parish was working near Bonar Bridge before the railway went north. He and a friend were returning

Tha duine beo fathast an sgir' Dhiúrinis aig am beil fiosaidheachd. Chunnaic agus chuala e iomudh ni io(ng)antach—solasan, cistean-laidh', tiodhlacan, grogadaich, agus eibheachd muinntir air am bathag. Bha e fhein agus nábuidh tighinn dhachaidh gle anamoch aon eidhch'. Ghabh iad rothad goirid, agus tbainig iad seachad a taobh baghach beag. Air dhaibh bhi dul seachad air so, thug an duine ialt mhór, mar gum biog eallach trom air a thilgeil air a dhruim. Dh' fheighneach a chompanach dhe gu d'é bha cur air. Fhreagair eis': "Dhuine, nach fhac' thu an g-corp sin aig eireadh air mo dhruim?" Ruith an duine eile air falbh ag eibheachd: "Cha d-teid mis' gu brath tuille maille ruits' an deigh 'n eidhch' tuitim."

Uine bheag an deigh so, cha' seathach 'chall air a chladach, agus cha' na lamhan uile a bhathag. Thainig aon do na chorpan air tir anns a' bhaghach so, agus chum as gu feigheag iad e gu ait gus an de'ag a chist laidh a dheanaig, cha' an g-corp a thogail air druim an duine so, direach anns an ait far an d' fhoireach e corp tighinn air a mhuin roimhe. Nuair cha' an g-corp thogail air a dhruim, thug an duine an ionn' seors' ialt agus a thug e roimhe. Chuimhnich a nabuidh, 'bha ann an sin, an ni a thachair nuair bha iad titjhinn dachaidh anamoch.