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Identifier: scottishfairyfol00doug (find matches)
Title: Scottish fairy and folk tales
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Douglas, George Brisbane, Sir, bart., 1856-1935, ed
Subjects: Folklore, Scottish Fairy tales -- Scotland
Publisher: New York, Burt
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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dyfor each and advice for all. The conversation turned, as likely it would (foryou see they had all been bargaining and selling), onhow fortunes were made or lost, and one said this,and the other said that, each one seeming to have hisown view of the matter, and deeming his own waythe best; but what the little pedlar remarked justbefore they broke up for the evening was the onlything that Gille Macdonald remembered or thoughtworth listening to. For the pedlar had said in answer to how would heset to work to make his fortune, that, if he was a bitbigger, and was a younger and stronger man, he knewa place where a fortune could be got for the digging,only it needed a stouter heart and a more adventurousspirit than he possessed to attempt the search. So hefor one would still stick to his pack. After the cup had passed round for the last time,and all were moving off to the beds provided for them,Gille Macdonald gently touched the sleeve of thepedlar, and asked him if he would kindly wait a
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Gille Macdonald drew the little pedlar towards the ingle, and fillinghis glass once more begged him to be seated.-Page 245. Scottish Fairy Tales. THE BRAZEN BROGUES. 245 moment after the others had gone, as he wanted,toask him privately a certain question. The pedlar was delighted to oblige so kind a hostas Gille Macdonald, and said he certainly would. So when the kitchen was clear of company, GilleMacdonald drew the little pedlar towards the ingle,and filling his glass once more, begged him to beseated, and if it so pleased him, to say what he meantby the place where a fortune was to be had for thedigging, if only a brave heart and a stout spirit werethere to attempt the deed. Oh! replied the little pedlar, that is it, is it ?Well, the place I mean is over on the west side ofKintyre, a days journey from here on horseback.Across the loch and by the roadover the ridge fromTarbert, there is the castle of Taychronan, in-habited by an evil old gentleman who is reputed to beeminently rich;

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