Scotland/Scots > Life and exploits of Rob Roy MacGregor

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committed an outrage on the property
of a neighbour, and carried off fifteen
faead of cattle, an express was sent to
Rob, informing him of the circumstance.
Being the first call of the kind he had
* received since he became the protector
of the vicinity, he instantly summoned
a dozen of his men, and followed the
plunderers. Two days and a night he
travelled, without obtaining any other
information as to th’eir track, than at
times seeing the impression of the cat*,
tie’s feet on the ground. The second
night, being fatigued, the party lay down
in a glen, near the march of Badenoch.
They had now rested long, when a fire
was discovered st a little distance. They
instantly set forward to reconnoitre,
when they found it \v-s a band of jolly
1 inkers, carousing near their tent, 't'heir
mirth, however, was soon interrupted,
when they beheld ilpb Roy and his par¬
ty. The tinkers informed him they had
seen the JViacras, wht> were but at a lit¬
tle distance ; and two of the tinkers
agreed to conduct the party to the spot.
The freebooters had halted, for the
security of their spoil, in a narrow part
of the glen, when the M'Gregors over¬
took them, as they were- setting out in
the morning. Rob, with a loud and ter-