BLACK CROW.
burn, o few yards below the spot whore it emerged from tho steepest part of the gorge, and, accepting as a
hoax ray repeated warnings that within tho next hundred yards he might find the remains of at least half a
dozen defunct sheep, he totally disregarded tho advice that a wee drop of the cratur might help to qualify the
possible impurities, and, hastily snatching a cuaeh* from the hands of one of tho gillies, he emptied it again
and again. I shall never forget his look of hopeless dismay (or tho doses of whiskey needed to bring about
bis recovery) when, mounting a few steps furl her up the hill-side, he looked down and became aware of the
revolting spectacle in the pool, immediately above the spot where he had quenched his thirst. A dead ewe
almost blocked up the courso of tho water (now low from continued drought); and tho tiuy streamlet that
bubbled slowly along meandered peacefully through the decaying carcass, and found a vent near the chest,
where tho bones were split asunder from the force of the fall or the effects of decomposition.