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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ieking withdismay towards the door, for he thought the fire hadcome through the roof; but so full of terror was he,that he quite forgot to bob his head, and so, dashingout his brains on the lintel, he lay dead and still onthe threshold, and that was the end of him. Then Dougald called out to his brother Duncan,who was keeping watch as he had promised, a shortway up the road, and Duncan and the Thunder-pigcame up to his call as quick as they could. Indeed, it was not long before they had unearthedthe TrolFs treasure—gems and jewels, silver andgold, hidden in the four corners of the bothy, and alarge slab of golden topaz, w^orth a kings ransom,stowed away under the hearthstone. ISTow, said Duncan, you stop here and lookafter your possessions, while I go to the end of theglen with the Thunder-pig. Wait for me here till I THE THREE GREEN MEN OF GLEN NEVIS. 57 return—I hope with treasure,—then we will pick upDonald and go home together. So Dougald remained in possession of the second
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DUNCAN AND THE THUNDER-PIG CAME AS QUICKLY ASTHEY COULD. green mans bothy, and Duncan and the Thunder-pig went on alone down the glen towards the sea. Just as he had expected, on emerging from theglen, he saw, on the right-hand side of the road, a 58 SCOTTISH FAIRY TALES. bothy exactly like the last, enclosed within a dykeof loose stones. There was no sign of life about it,and it looked so particularly forbidding, that Dun-can determined to have a good look round, and in-spect the place from every side, before he knocked atthe door. Getting over the dyke he crept quietly round theback of the bothy, and there, on a level with his head,he saw a window, just big enough to crawl in or outof, filled with wattles twisted up and across like bars. This will be of some use, I feel sure, said Dun-can ; and he then asked the Thunder-pig to be so goodas to lie down under the window and to wait till hecalled. Oh! the Thunder-pig was quite agreeable to do so. Having settled that, Duncan went to the

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