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Ballad revels at Rowardennan.
'"Love, I maun gang to Edinbrugh, Love, I maun gang an' leave thee!" She sighed right sair, an' said nae mair But "O gin I were wi' ye!"' Andrew Lammie.
Jean Dalziel came to visit us a week ago, and has put new life into our little circle.

I suppose it was playing 'Sir Patrick Spens' that set us thinking about it, for one warm, idle day when we were all in the Glen we began a series of ballad-revels, in which each of us assumed a favourite character.

The choice induced so much argument and disagreement that Mr.Beresford was at last appointed head of the clan; and having announced himself formally as The Mackintosh, he was placed on the summit of a hastily arranged pyramidal cairn.

He was given an ash wand and a rowan-tree sword; and then, according to ancient custom, his pedigree and the exploits of his ancestors were recounted, and he was exhorted to emulate their example.