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I ItlACGReGOR THIS is a comprehensive collection of 0/^. 317 the best folk-tales of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Many of these tales have been collected orally by the author and appear now in print for the first time. In the outlying parts of the Hebrides where only Gaelic is spoken by the older inhabitants these tales could only be collected by one who is familiar with the language, and the Author is well qualified for the task he has under- taken. He has been a collector all his life and. Highland born, familiar with Gaelic since he could speak. With the passing years the sources for oral col- lection of these old tales are becoming fewer and less accessible and as there has been a growing interest in Celtic literature and Celtic music in recent years the time would seem ripe for a new one-volume collection of folk-tales. The book is illustrated with reproduc- tionsfromtheAuthor^sownphotographs. THE PEAT-FIRE FLAME ! By the Same Author: SOMEWHERE IN SCOTLAND. THE HAUNTED ISLES. SEARCHING THE HEBRIDES WITH A CAMERA. OVER THE SEA TO SKYE. A LAST VOYAGE TO ST. KILDA. BEHOLD THE HEBRIDES WILD DRUMALBAIN THE ROAD TO MEGGERNIE : AND GLEN COE. SUMMER DAYS AMONG THE WESTERN ISLES. HEBRIDEAN SEA PIECES. ETC., ETC. THE PEAT-FIRE FLAME FOLK-TALES AND TRADITIONS OF THE HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS By Alasdair Alpin MacGregor (Author of Summer Days among the Western Isles; Somezvhere in Scotland; &c.) With 56 Illustrations from Photographs by the Author. THE MORAY PRESS EDINBURGH & LONDON FIRST PUBLISHF.D It THE MORAY TRESS 126 PRINCES STREET, EDtNEURGII 182 HIGH HOLBOKN, LONDON, W.C.I PRINTED IN SCOTLAND BY THE DUNEDIN PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH AND BOUND BY WILLIAM HUNTER & SONS, EDINBURGH FOR GRANT & MURRAY LIMITED 120 PRINCES STREET, EDINBURGH

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decade, and that now are appropriately incorporated in this volume. To Miss Mary Wilson, Black Hill House, Strathtay, I am grateful for two or three cows dead. His suspicions were immediately directed toward the occupants of the Culver the name given to a brugh forming part of the Charmed. Knowe
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