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THE STOR Y OF MAR Y OF UNNIMORE
AS TOLD BY HERSELF*
HAT was the day of the sadness to many—
the day on which Mac Cailein+ (Argyle)
parted with the estate of his ancestors in the place
where I was reared.
The people of Unnimore thought that “flitting"
would not come upon them while they lived. As
long as they paid the rent, and that was not diffi¬
cult to do, anxiety did not come near them; and
* From the Gaelic of the late Dr Macleod, of St Columba’s,
Glasgow, illustrative of the poor Highlander in the great city.
t Mac Cailein. Sir Walter Scott, and after him Macaulay,
write Argyle’s patronymic as Mac Callum, a mistake which sounds
very offensive to a Celtic ear. Colin — Celtic^ Csilein—was tks
founder of the Argyle family.