"Stop, stop," said Donald; "if the harrow is coming after us, we may just as well go back again." The mystery of the harrow is not explained, but Donald did return to his home, and made no further attempt to escape from his troubles in this way.
If the bocan had a spite at Donald, he was still worse disposed towards his wife, the MacGregor woman.

On the night on which he last made his presence felt, he went on the roof of the house and cried, "Are you asleep, Donald Ban ?" "Not just now," said Donald.

"Put out that long grey tether, the MacGregor wife," said he.

"I don't think I'll do that tonight," said Donald.

"Come out yourself, then," said the bocan, "and leave your bonnet." The good-wife, thinking that the bocan was outside and would not hear her, whispered in Donald's ear as he was rising, "Won't you ask him when the Prince will come ?" The words, however, were hardly out of her mouth when the bocan answered her with, "Didn't you get enough of him before, you grey tether ?" Another account says that at this last visit of the bocan, he was saying that various other spirits were along with him.