If he did what they desired, and forgot his master and his trust, he could not return to his native country, for Glenlyon would be no home or country for him, as he would be despised and hunted out of the glen.

Accordingly he kept steady to his trust, and was executed.

This trusty servant's name was John Macnaughton, from Glenlyon, in Perthshire.

He deserves to be mentioned, both on account of his incorruptible fidelity, and of his testimony to the honourable principles of the people, and to their detestation of a breach of trust to a kind and honourable master, however great might be the risk, or however fatal the consequences, to the individual himself."-- Vol.1., pp.
52,53, 3rd Edit.
NOTE TO THE TWO DROVERS.
Note 11 .-- ROBERT DONN'S POEMS.
I cannot dismiss this story without resting attention for a moment on the light which has been thrown on the character of the Highland Drover since the time of its first appearance, by the account of a drover poet, by name Robert Mackay, or, as he was commonly called, Rob Donn--that is, Brown Robert--and certain specimens of his talents, published in the ninetieth number of the Quarterly Review.

The picture which that paper gives of the habits and feelings of a class of persons with which the general reader would be apt to associate no ideas but those of wild superstition and rude manners, is in the highest degree interesting, and I cannot resist the temptation of quoting two of the songs of this hitherto unheard-of poet of humble life.