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LOCH TOIL AND BALQTTHIDDER.
—a good looking young savage. Their victim was so dishevelled in her
dress, and forlorn in her appearance and demeanour, that he could hardly
tell whether she was alive or dead.”
Kobin was selected as the bridegroom, his brother James holding the
bride while a clergyman of some kind was got to perform the marriage
ceremony. It does not appear that the Established clergyman would
have gone quite so far in assisting the outrage; but, under the influence
of the lawless set he was among, he was compelled to give it his counte¬
nance. The bride and bridegroom came formally to the church of Bal-
quhidder, where the clergyman received them as married persons of his
flock, the poor woman not daring to say nay. This outrage aroused the
latent power of the law. Balquhidder was occupied by troops. It was
impossible any longer to set the civil power at active defiance, and the
brothers attempted to make out that the widow had consented to be run
away with, and was legally married. She died while the discussion went
on. Robin the bridegroom was hanged, while his brother, supposed to
be the more guilty, escaped, and led a vagabond life in France.
LOCH VOIL AND BALQUHIDDER.
Such are the scenes to which the Braes of Balquhidder
were witnesses a century ago. Nothing can be more in con¬
trast with the present placid beauty of the solitary glen and
its sweet lakes. Penetrating the wilderness above the hamlet
called the Kirkton of Balquhidder, we pass but two farm-houses