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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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ness, andprove his truthfulness before condemning me ?asked Ian na Sporran. ^ If I am guilty, I am will-ing to die! if I am innocent, your own justice andyour wifes beauty forbid that I should suffer. I am a just man, and my wife is beautiful, an-swered the chief. You are right. Ian na Piob,call your witness. Thrice whistled Ian na Piob, and in a trice therestood in the window the hoodie of Eothiemurchus. ^ Do you take oath, O hoodie, said the chief, that Ian na Sporran stole my golden barley ? ^^ I do, said the hoodie. How so ? asked the chief. ^ Because, croaked the hoodie, without hesitation,^ Ian na Sporran gave me some to eat this verymorning to keep me from declaring his offence; forhe knew I saw him do it. Look you how my crop isdistended full, full, full! Oh! said the chief, looking at Ian na Sporran, you must certainly die ! I pray you cut the witness open, and see if hespeaks the truth, said Ian na Sporran. Do so, said the chief; for I am a just man,and my wife is beautiful.
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Thrice whistled Ian na Piob, and there stood in the window the hoodie ofRothiemurchus.—Page 156. Scottish Fairy Tales. THE FAITHFUL PURSE-BEARER. I57 So they cut the hoodie open, and found nothing inhis inside but some sugar and broad beans. Thenthey flung the carcass out of the window into theloch below, where Spottie Face, the great salmon,had his residence, who ate him up at one gulp, andthat was the end of him. ^ This is just nonsense! roared the chief. ^ Thecase is dismissed; let us go in to supper. So thechief and his vassals went in to supper, and in the de-lights of the feast-room forgot all about the evil ofthe morning. If there was an angry man in the whole districtthat man was Ian na Piob; nor did the sense of thisfailure make him give up his evil intentions, but hepondered again from that day the whole year throughhow he might bring Ian na Sporran to the gallows. It was again three days before the Eew Year thatIan na Piob was walking through the pinewoods ofDalwhinnie, a

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