The McBrides / A Romance of Arran

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THE McBRIDES
A Romance of Arran
Fifth Impression
The Ryerson Press, Toronto William Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh and London 1922
Crotal, lichen. A traill, you sluggard. Cleiteadh mor, big ridge of rocks. Bothanairidh, summer sheiling. Birrican, a place name. Rhuda ban, white headland. Bealach an sgadan, Herring slap. Skein dubh, black knife. Crubach, lame. Mo ghaoil, my darling. Direach sin, (just that), (now do you see). Lag 'a bheithe, hollow of the birch. Mo bhallach, my boy. Ceilidh, visit (meeting of friends); ceilidhing; ceilidher. Cha neil, negative, no. Mo leanabh, my child. Cailleachs, old women. Og, young. Mhari nic Cloidh, Mary Fullarton.
I. WHICH TELLS OF THE COMING OF THE GIPSY II. MAKES SOME MENTION OF ONE JOCK McGILP, AND TELLS HOW BELLE BROUGHT THE WEAN IN THE TARTAN SHAWL INTO THE HOUSE OF NOURN III. IN WHICH I CHASE DEER AND SEE STRANGE HORSEMEN ON THE HILL, AND A LIGHT FLASHING ON THE SEA IV. I MEET JOCK McGILP AND HIS MATE McNEILAGE AT THE TUBS' INN, AND LEARN WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE WEAN IN THE TARTAN SHAWL V. MIRREN STUART'S ERRAND VI. WE TRAMP THROUGH THE SNOW TO McKELVIE'S INN VII. WE SAIL IN McKELVIE'S SKIFF TO THE HOLY ISLAND VIII. THE DEATH OF McDEARG, THE RED LAIRD IX. MIRREN STUART BIDS HER DOG LIE DOWN X. DOL BEAG IS FLUNG INTO A FIRE XI. THE BLAZING WHINS XII. McALLAN'S LOCKER XIII. DAN McBRIDE SAILS FROM LOCH BANZA XIV. WE RETURN XV. THE STRANGER ON THE MOORS XVI. I HAVE SOME TALK WITH McGILP IN McKINNON'S KITCHEN
XVII. I TURN SCHOOLMASTER XVIII. THE FIRST MEETING XIX. THE RIDERS ON THE MOOR XX. THE LOVE SECRET XXI. DOL BEAG LAUGHS XXII. THE SHAMELESS LASS XXIII. HELEN AND BRYDE McBRIDE REST AT THE FOOT OF THE URIE XXIV. THE HALFLIN'S MESSAGE XXV. I RIDE AGAIN TO McALLAN'S LOCKER XXVI. A WEDDING ON THE DOORSTEP XXVII. MARGARET McBRIDE KISSES HELEN XXVIII. IN WHICH BETTY COMPLAINS OF GROWING-PAINS XXIX. THE RAKING BLACK SCHOONER XXX. TELLS WHERE BRYDE MET HAMISH OG XXXI. BRYDE AND MARGARET XXXII. BRYDE AND HELEN XXXIII. HOW JOHN McCOOK HEARS OF THE PLOY AT THE CLATES XXXIV. WHAT CAME OF THE PLOY XXXV. DOL BEAG LAUGHS AGAIN