THE FAIRY BEDROOM.

��that very uncommon being, a fairy grandmother. Godmothers among the fairies have often been heard of, but grandmothers, we believe, never before or since. Had Puck peeped in and seen /Johnson wearing his wig turned inside out and the wrong end in front as a substitute for a night-cap, 1 he might well have exclaimed that his mistress kept a monster, not only near but in " her close and consecrated bower." From this room a winding stone stair- case led up to the battlements, but without mounting so high John- son commanded a fine view. From his window he could see, far

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��away across the lochs, Macleod's Tables, two lofty hills with round flat tops, which on all sides form a striking landmark. Much nearer was the Gallows Hill, where in the bad old times many a poor wretch, dragged from his dark and dismal dungeon, caught his last sight of loch and mountain and heath, doomed to death by the laird. Only thirty-three years before our travellers' visit a man was hanged there by the grandfather of their host. He was a Macdonakl who had murdered his father, and escaped into Mac- leod's country. But the old tribal feuds were long since over, and

1 See ante, p. 3.

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