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WEST HIGHLAND TALES.
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Fox, Huntsman, and Falcon. — From a stone at Shandwick.'
Sculptured Stones of Scotland, PI. xxvi.
LXVI.
THE FOX AND THE LITTLE BOXNACH.
From Hector Boyd, who learnt it from one John Campbell,
who died three years ago, at the age of thirty — Sept. 20, 1860.
ri^HE fox was once going over a loch, and there
-*- met him a httle bonnach, and the fox asked liim
where he Avas going. The Httle bonnach told him he
wa,s gomg to such a place.
" And whence camest thou?" said the fox.
" I came from Geeogan, and I came from Cooaig-
EAN, and I came from the slab of the bonnach stone,
and I came from the eye of the quern, and I wUl come
from thee if I may," quoth the little bonnach.
" Well, I myself will take thee over on my back,"
said the fox.
" ThouTt eat me, thou 'It eat me," quoth the little
bonnach.
" Come then on the tip of my tail," said the fox.
" Oh ! I will not ; thou Avilt eat me," said the little
bonnach.
" Come into my ear," said the fox.