Days of Deer Stalking in the Scottish Highlands Including An Account of the Na
Days of Deer Stalking in the Scottish Highlands Including An Account of the Na
William Scrope
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" But the habits of oral recitation were in vigour all about him, " and being, by nature, endowed with a rich fancy, and a retentive memory, his mind was stored with romantic legends and superstitions, which, perhaps, abound more in that district than in any other part of Scotland. The following account of this northern bard I have extracted from the Edinburgh Review, for July, 1831, with some variation, however, for the sake of compression : " His witty sayings, his satires, his elegies, and, ...above all, his love songs, had begun to make him famous not only in his native glen, but wherever the herdsmen of a thousand hills could carry a stanza or an anecdote. Donald Lord Reay, a true-hearted chief, resident constantly amidst his A POET POACHER. 211 \ ' children, ' and participating in all their affections, presently claimed for himself the care of the rising bard of Mackay ; and Rob was invested with the office of boman, or head cattle keeper, an employment which, at that time, carried with it abundance of respect in the eyes of his fellow mountaineers.
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