Next they gathered a quantity of furze and brushwood and peat, and piled it in the end of the avenue next the cottage.

Then Angus went and killed a little pig, and dressed it ready for cooking.
"'Now you go down to my brother Hamish,' he said to Mr.MacLeod; 'he's a carpenter, you know,--and ask him to lend you his longest wimble.'" "What's a wimble ?" asked little Allister.
[Illustration] "A wimble is a long tool, like a great gimlet, with a cross handle, with which you turn it like a screw.

And Allister ran and fetched it, and got back only half an hour before the sun went down.

Then they put Nelly into the cottage, and shut the door.

But I ought to have told you that they had built up a great heap of stones behind the brushwood, and now they lighted the brushwood, and put down the pig to roast by the fire, and laid the wimble in the fire halfway up to the handle.