 | 1826 - 346 páginas
...of the Mearns, their decay is attributed to a supernatural cause. When one of the lairds, say they, built the old castle, he secured the assistance of...and did not relieve him till the whole was finished. * The poor kelpy was glad of his de* In Dr. Jamieson's poem of " The Water-Kelpie" (M inst. Scot. Bord.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 372 páginas
...of the Mearns, their decay is attributed to a supernatural cause. When one of the lairds, say they, built the old castle, he secured the assistance of...and did not relieve him till the whole was finished. The poor kelpy was glad of his deliverance, but at the same time felt himself so galled with the hard... | |
 | 1851 - 322 páginas
...of the Grahams of Morphie was building the old castle, he secured the assistance of the water-kelpie or river-horse, by the accredited means of throwing a pair of branks (a sort of yoke) over his head. When released from his labour, and about to return to the water, he... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1869 - 420 páginas
...of the Mearns, their decay is attributed to a supernatural cause. When one of the lairds, say they, built the old castle, he secured the assistance of...and did not relieve him till the whole was finished. The poor kelpy was glad of his deliverance, but at the same time felt himself so galled with the hard... | |
 | George Douglas - 2000 - 390 páginas
...assistance of the water-kelpy or riverhorse, by the accredited means of throwing a pair of branks2 over his head. He then compelled the robust spirit...and did not relieve him till the whole was finished. The poor kelpy was glad of his deliverance, but at the same time felt himself so galled with the hard... | |
 | George Douglas - 2000 - 390 páginas
...of the Mearns, their decay is attributed to a supernatural cause. When one of the lairds, say they, built the old castle, he secured the assistance of...riverhorse, by the accredited means of throwing a pair of branks2 over his head. He then compelled the robust spirit to carry prodigious loads of stones for... | |
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The old family of the Grahams of Morphie was in former times very powerful, but at length they sunk in fortune, and finally the original male line became extinct. Among the old women of the Mearns, their decay is attributed to a supernatural cause. When... 