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FIRESIDE NURSERY STORIES. 229
frae far and near, but he was nane the better ; and at last
he published a proclamation, that he would gie the princess,
his daug-hter, in marriage to ony man that would cure him.
Sae Sir James g-aed to the court, and askit leave to try his
skeel. As soon as he came into the king-'s presence, and
looked at him, he saw there was a ball o' hair in his inside,
and that no medicine could touch it. But he said if the
king- would trust to him, he would cure him ; and the king
having- consented, he put him sae fast asleep, that he cuttit
the ball o' hair out of his inside without his ever wakening.
When he did waken, he was free from illness, only weak
a little frae the loss of blood ; and he was sae pleased wi'
his doctor, that Sir James kneeled down and tell't him wha
he was. And the king pardoned him, and gied him back
a' his lands, and gied him the princess, his daughter, in
marriage.'
[' Nessus de Eamsay, the founder of the family of Banff,
was a person of considerable note in the thirteenth century.
He held the office of phj^sician to King Alexander II., and
received a grant of lands in this parish, which his descen-
dants still hold, in reward for having saved the life of the
king- by a critical operation ; according- to popular tradition,
by " cutting a hair-ball from the king's heart." One of his
descendants, James Ramsay, attained to eminence in the
same profession, and was physician to James I. and
Charles I.' — Ne^a Statistical Account of Scotland, art.
Alyth.]
THE PECHS.
' Long ago there were peojDle in this country called the
Pechs ; short wee men they were, wi' red hair, and long
arms, and feet sae braid, that when it rained they could turn
them up owre their heads, and then they served for um-
brellas. The Pechs were great builders ; they built a' the
auld castles in the kintry ; and do ye ken the way they
built them 1 — I'll tell ye. They stood all in a row from the
quarry to the place where they were building, and ilk ane
handed forward the stanes to his neebor, till the hale was
biggit. The Pechs were also a great people for ale, which
they brewed frae heather; sae, ye ken, it bood to be an
extraornar cheap kind of drink ; for heather, I'se warrant,
was as plenty then as it's now. This art o' theirs was
frae far and near, but he was nane the better ; and at last
he published a proclamation, that he would gie the princess,
his daug-hter, in marriage to ony man that would cure him.
Sae Sir James g-aed to the court, and askit leave to try his
skeel. As soon as he came into the king-'s presence, and
looked at him, he saw there was a ball o' hair in his inside,
and that no medicine could touch it. But he said if the
king- would trust to him, he would cure him ; and the king
having- consented, he put him sae fast asleep, that he cuttit
the ball o' hair out of his inside without his ever wakening.
When he did waken, he was free from illness, only weak
a little frae the loss of blood ; and he was sae pleased wi'
his doctor, that Sir James kneeled down and tell't him wha
he was. And the king pardoned him, and gied him back
a' his lands, and gied him the princess, his daughter, in
marriage.'
[' Nessus de Eamsay, the founder of the family of Banff,
was a person of considerable note in the thirteenth century.
He held the office of phj^sician to King Alexander II., and
received a grant of lands in this parish, which his descen-
dants still hold, in reward for having saved the life of the
king- by a critical operation ; according- to popular tradition,
by " cutting a hair-ball from the king's heart." One of his
descendants, James Ramsay, attained to eminence in the
same profession, and was physician to James I. and
Charles I.' — Ne^a Statistical Account of Scotland, art.
Alyth.]
THE PECHS.
' Long ago there were peojDle in this country called the
Pechs ; short wee men they were, wi' red hair, and long
arms, and feet sae braid, that when it rained they could turn
them up owre their heads, and then they served for um-
brellas. The Pechs were great builders ; they built a' the
auld castles in the kintry ; and do ye ken the way they
built them 1 — I'll tell ye. They stood all in a row from the
quarry to the place where they were building, and ilk ane
handed forward the stanes to his neebor, till the hale was
biggit. The Pechs were also a great people for ale, which
they brewed frae heather; sae, ye ken, it bood to be an
extraornar cheap kind of drink ; for heather, I'se warrant,
was as plenty then as it's now. This art o' theirs was
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| Description | Original poems / by Robert Chambers. |
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