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unscrupulous individual to make a raid in the district, and lead to the 1 1 lifting " or either the eggs or young.
This eiry has been plundered repeatedly in days gone by; and the chances are that the robbery may be
again accomplished. Some years a^o I heard a lively account of the exploit from one who carried off the
eggs from the nest. In order to effect his purpose be was forced to swim out to the island, as the boat
which was usually kept on the loch had been removed from the water. It was scarcely daybreak when he
started from the shore; but by the time he returned to the hank it was fairly light, and snow* was falling
heat il>. As he emerged l'r nil the u ater in the garb of Adam before the fall ijiar the blue bonnet on his head
which contained the spoil), he was surprised bt a piercing shriek; and on looking up he saw the forester's
wife rush towards her house and slam the door. It seems, that the womau (whose husband was known to he
bsciit) had been attracted by the screams of the birds, when she was startled by the strange apparition slowly
appealing from the water. Ever after she entertained a firm belief in the existence of that fearful being the
" water-kelpie."