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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,
APRIL 7, 1937.
How They Killed
N all the Findhorn, there was consternation. Women yes, and men too-looked behind them as the dusk
came...
Doors were bolted very carefully, windows were barred. And rumour ran from mouth to mouth from Forres on the coast to Kingussle in the mountains.
Macfee had seen it. Macpherson had heard Raye, even the towns talked of it, from Inverness to Fort William, from Elgin to Blair Atholl in the south:
They left talking of Bonnie Prince the Black Charlie and talked of
Beast.
There was even, in tlie mountain villages, anger and indignation, Had they not been the fant 1. wolf then? They frightened their children with him in story-must they still be frightened, and more than frightened. in fact?
They felt that the Laled-they felt that those in authority-ought well to lave slamped out the scourge by now. Had it been for no use that in their great-grandfathers' time whole tracta of forest had been burnt for no other reason than to rid the country of wolves?
Why, twa shillings a head had been given them. And not only reward bul Injunction. King James the First of happy memory had made & law that not only every landowner but his tonants too should hunt the wolf. The Lady Margaret Lyon, "stout, bold was remembered' gratefully woman," for her practice of inking n place of Vorlage and shooting the creatures with bow, and arrow as they were driven past her:'...
She hit too! And yet here, in the yeaT et proce 1743, was till a wolf-n great wolf, a terror, There was no doubt
about it. Gilchrist of Dalong had had doven kleep killed-one eaten and the rent killed wantonly.
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·UNROE, of Coigtashie, too, Jnd lost sleep. And here was young Donald Macree, of Pall-a-Chirocsin, telling of a yearling calf killed. (Though you could never quito tell with Macree-the tall, hand- somo man, he would spin a yarn to call attention to himself with lasses any day.)
In this wild country of Clara and Block (mountain-top and mvine) life was hard enough anyway, without n wolt to feed on your flock-dye, and feed onL you maybe, too!
But Macqueen, of Pall-n-Chrocain, wak the man they must go to, of course.
Something must be done, and he was tho man to do it. (Young Donald heit boasted he would lie in wall weitli kin lock-But then found that m Rintjock was out of order,)
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THE HUNT for the escaped wolf, in Oxfordshire recalls the story of how, less than 200 years ago. Britain's Inst wolf was killed in the Highlands. This account is fiction, but it is based on the facts." The picture shows how dogs with spiked collars worked in the old wolf-hunt.
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Janky, linity brutes—strong in the chest as well as long m the leg. MacQueen himself was the beat hunter, too, which was more to the point...
The deputation found him in his little craft, grüfing a nice juley sterk of vank- son.
But they got little satisfaction from the dour, fijnek-nvized man.
They caught kilns perhaps in a tálnek. mood, though no one knew why-ho was At Inexplicable man.
** Awa' wi' yet" he shouted at last, waving hin A
"Awa' wl' yet” He Intimated with no uncertainty, though few words, that he was a hunter of deur. not waiver He mumbled something lo the effect that he dider't believe in the wolf yet.
Things had to be serious before Mac Citern moved. And serious they becozur, with a horrid and terrifying and bewil. dering suitestean.
Poor mother Marsic. There was u Crowd round her cottage all day. She
told the tale, weeplug, a hundred times. There Iny the two children, un lecrutly isid out ne the woll's work would fet them.
"Only across the burnie," she cried, "Only herom the wee burn, A wee way, To fetch a bit dough from the Munroen,“
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HE Laird heard of this. I
was not kely that the McIntosh would be allowed
to remain ignorant. He came strid- mg, into the village. Ties should!
tre trering, he oftendefunct, free
Tainchet-there' aliould be an organ- ised hunt for the beast. This should be the end
"MacQueen," they all sald. (A few of the lasca said Donald Macree, but no one took notice of them.) They went in a body to MacQueen's house. the Laird leading. ITe condescended lo enter and MacQueen condracended to stand up.
Aye, he would join the' Talschel, he nakl. To-morrow morning? Well ... yes, he supposed that would suit him.
A few acemed dinaatinfest--they wan- ted surely, and definiteness in this ter
ible matter, and not a teus af voice that wounded nonrebow full of reservations.
* 131 ma* fall yol" cried MacQueen. ** I'll ha' fall ye. Oot w' ye now I'm buy. Syne tomorrow,"
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TEXT morning was fine and frosty. They met in the valley-n strange, motley collection in the narrow green strip between the towering wooded hills, armed with hay-forks and picks, and a few flintlocks that were to be us unavailing three years hence, when some of those there would fall on the wild and bloody field of Culloden.
One even had a boar apear.' Young Donald's musket seemed to be mended...
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The sun was already up, for the daur MacQueen had insisted on not too ently a start. And then they had to wait for the Laird.
Aweel,"
KAMA.
said this Laird whon be 'i ken we'd belter he starting/" "MacQueen's 210* here!" thay said... "A weel, we'd better wait for idim.". They wait048,
No dun woulu acknowledge that Mac-
seemed strangely unwilling to start with~ out him.
Donald Macres kaldt he At Juncht would just go and get them a bite.
At last decided to The Laird frotted.
There was A go without the hunter. clamour-it lasted some time. No ono would start.
"I'll go and search for him," and Donald Macren, when it was nearing tes
says Mr. Peppercorn:
I MENTIONED
some time ago Chokea an old pensioner, W11- 110m Hiseland. who lived during seven reigns, and somebody has alice written to me of a woman who is two up on William.
There's a
at Ludgershall.
ho says, recording that she died in 1565, and she must have been well over the century to have covered nine reigns.
Shu'd have seen a lot in her Lime.
Starting with the Wars of the Roses, she'd have heard of the murder of the Prinees in the
and the Tower
discovery of America.
have She'd probably
been tlckled to death over Henry VIII's matrimonial troubles, and, though she wouldn't have known it. Shakespeare was a toddler at Stratford before she died.
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Some had gone home. The Laird How was fuming.. He stumped up, anÉ down on the tussocky grass.
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HEN suddenly someone cried, and pointed: "Over yon brae!" They thought al first he meant the wolf. But they. saw then that it was a man coming. They soon recognised him as the MacQueen.
BlacQueen walked straight up to the Laird, the two big men stared at each other.
**Awcel7* naid the Laird, very forcely. The hunter said nothing. Everyano kept at a little distance-for fear of the Laird. There was a ring round the two
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Then, without word. MacQueen opened his coat. Ill two dogs, ¡ylox down, rono u From out of his cont came the black, gory, bristing head of the wolf.
There was a strange sort of cry. But no one spoke. But at last MacQueen
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* As I came through the slochk,” he said quietly, "I foregathered - wi' the benat. My long dogs thiro turned him. 1 buckled wi' him, and dirkit him, and Kyme whittled his craig.”
The wolf's cmig was whuttled-his The hunter throat was certainly cut. looked down, looked up, went ou
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̧N' I brought awa' his coun- tenance for fear he might come alive again, Lairdi For, forby, tisoy are very precarious creatures, ye ken."
The Tainchet kn due course dispersed. The last wolf in Britain was dead. And MacQueen, the hunter of Phil-a-Caroc 'ni, had Inft motline to chance in the
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Engineers have been working for years to produce an internal com- bustion engine that would utilise more than the present 8 per cent. of fuel cticiency. For instance.
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the opinion For years I have been of that the car of the future will have the engine at the rear, and I see no reason to alter that opinion now.
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