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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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a common-bred pig, said the brute. Would it be rude to ask what breed you are ?said Duncan. Not at all, replied the pig. Im a Thunder-pig, at your service. What sort of breed is that ? said Duncan. If you want to know, just kiss me once betweenthe eyes; it will save a lot of explanation. ISTow, Duncan was not accustomed to kiss swinebetween the eyes, or anywhere else, for the matter ofthat, but he thought he had better not decline, as itwas his fault that the pig had been disturbed, and onenever knows what may be got by being civil to any-thing, man or beast, and the pig looked clean as pigs go- THE THREE GREEN MEN OF GLEN NEVIS. 47 So he kissed the pig between the eyes. The next moment Duncan felt himself flat on theground, for such a grunt came from the porker thathe fell over backwards from alarm and astonishmentat the terrific explosion. And the mountain-tops solong resounded with the report, that you would thinkthe echoes were never going to cease talking about itto one another.
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HE KISSED THE PIG. Its lucky you dont produce lightning as well/said Duncan, getting up with a wry face and bruisedelbows. I would rather have you for a friend thana foe any day. ^ I am quite willing to be the first, said the pig. For myself, I dont mind if I go with you as a com-panion ; I am rather sick of the life up here. 48 SCOTTISH FAIRY TALES. I, too, shall be glad of your company, and thatsa bargain, said Duncan; and now, let me intro-duce you to my brothers whom I see coming towardsus. So the three brothers met and told their discoveries,and introduced each to the other his new companion;then, having nothing more to do at the summit, theydescended to the glen below. Even to this day there is more thunder round Bene Bhreac than any of the mountains in the neighbour-hood, and when storms are at their loudest round itscrags, Hark, say the good wives of Rannoch; tis the witch of Ben e Bhreac working with herthunder servants. And the mountain is avoidedto this day. So, towards the

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