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N all the Findhorn thero was consternation. Womon -yes, and men too-looked behind them as the dusk
come.
Doors were bolted very carefully. windows were barred. And rumour cat from 'mouth to mouth from Forres on the coast to Kinguzalė in the mountains,
Macfee and seen it, Macpherson had heard it-aya, 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 Black Charlie and talked of the Beast.
There was even, in the mountain villages, anger and indignation. find they not acen the last of the wolf then? They frightened their children with him in story-must they still be frightened, and more than frightened, in faci?
They felt that the Laird-they felt that those in authority-ought well to have stamped out the scourge by now, Had it been for no use that in their great-grandfathers' time whole tmets or forest had been burnt for no other reason than to rid the country of wolves?
Why, twa shilings a' head had been giren them. And not only reward but injunction. King James the First of happy memory had made it law that not only every latidowner but lis tenants too should hunt the wolf. The Lady Margaret Lyon, "stout, bold woman," was remembered gratefully for her practice of taking a place of vantage and shooting the crentures with bow and arrow as they were driven past her....
She hit toof And yet here, in the year of grues 1743, was still a wolima grent wolf, a terror. There was no doubt atrout it. Gilchrist of Datoer had had noton rheop killed-and eaten and the rest killed wantonly.
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UNROE, of Colgnashie, too. had lost alep. And here was young Donald Macree, of Pall-a-Chrocain, telling of a yearling. culf killed. (Though you could never quito tell will Maerce--the tall, hand- some man, he would spin a yarn to cnil attention to himself with lasses any <lay.)
in the wild country of Cart and Block (mountain-top and ravine) te was hard enough anyway, without a worr to feed on your Block-aye, and feed on you maybe, 100!
But Macqueen, af Pali-a-Chrocaini, was the man they must go to, of course.
Bomething must be done, and he was the man to do it. (Young Donnid had bonated he would ilo in wait with his
that flintlook-but then found
hla flintlock was out of order.)
Macqiten had the best long dogs, this bost hyuting dogs in the district-great,
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Britain's
Last Wolf
THE HUNT for the escaped wolf in Oxfordsblre recalls, the story of how, less than 200 years ago, Britain's last 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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lonky, hairy brutes-strong in the cheat as well as long in the leg. MacQueen himself was the best hunter, too, which was more ta the point....
The deputation found him in his fitto craft, griling a nice juicy stenk of veni-, Bon.
"But they got little satisfaction from the dour, binck-nvised man,
* Thoy caught him perhaps in a black tood, though no one know why--he wAN no inexplicable man,
"Awa' wl' yel" ho shouted at last, waving his arms.
If * Awa' wi' yo!" intimated with no uncertainty, though. fow words. that he was a hunter of deer, not wolves. 1o mumbled something to the effect that he didn't believe in the wolf yet.
Things had to be serious before Atné. Queen moved. And serious they became, with a harrid and terrifying nod bewil- dering suddenresa,,
There witn
Poor mother Stanle crowd round her cotingo all day. She told the tale, weeping, & hundred times. There in the two children, as decently lalu out the wolf's work would let them.
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"Only across the burale," she cried, **Only across the wee burn. A wee way. To fetch a bit dough from the Munroes."
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THE Laird heard of this, IL was not likely that the McIntosh would be allowed
to remain Ignartut. ife came strid. ing into the village. They should have Bathering, he decided,
Tainclcl-there should be an organ- isod hunt for the beast. This ahould be the end.
"MacQueen," they all said. (A few of the lasses said Donald Macree, but They no one took notice of them.) went in a body to MaeQueon's houEO, the Laird lending. Ho condescended to enter-and MucQueen condescended to stand up.
- Ayo, be would join the Talnchel, he said. To-morrow morning? Well.
yes, lis supposed that would suit, him, A few beemed dissatisfied--they wan ted surely and definiteness in Chile fer- rible matter, and not a tone of voice that sounded somehow full of reservations.
** I'll na* fail 'sol" cried MacQueen. "I'll in fall ye. Cot wi' ye now! I'm busy. Syne to-morrow."
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*EXT moming was fine and
frosty. "They met in tho
valley-a elrange, motley collection In the narrow green strip between the towering wooded hills, arined with hay-forks and pleks, and a few flintlocks that were to be në unavalling three years hence, when some of those there would fall on tie wild and bloody field of Oulloden.
One even had a boar spear. Young Donald's musket Becined to bo mended...
The sun was ndrendy up, for the dour MacQueen had insisted on not too early n start. And then they had to wait for the Laird,·
Awool," said the Laird when ho camo. "I ten wo'd better be starting." **MacQueen's no' kero!” they shid.
A weel, we'd hattor wait for him.” They waited.
No one would acknowledge that. Mae- Queen was the leader. But he was, All
seemed strangely unwilling to alart with- out him,
At lunch Donald Macroe said he Would just go and got them a bito..
The Laird fretted. At last decided to There was a go without the hunter. clamour-it lasted some time. No one would start.
I'll go and search for him." id Donald Macren, when it was nearing tea-
says Mr. Peppercorn:
MENTIONED
some time ago t nu old Chelsea pensioner, Wil iam Hucland, who lived during seven reigns, and somebody для Binco written to mo of a woman
who is two up on William.
There's a brass at Ludgershall, ha says, recording that she died In 1605, and she must have been well over the century have covered nine reigns.
She'd have scen a lol in her time.
Btarting with the Wars of the Roses, alied; have heard of the murder of the Princes in the Tower and the discovery of Americo.
She'd probably haye been Lickled to death over Henry VIII's matrimontal troubles, and, though she wouldn't have known it, Shakespearo, WAS a toddler At Stratford before she died.
time. Some had gone home. The Laird' now was luming.
He stumped up and
down on the tussocky RYKKE.
T
HEN
suddenly Emoond
cried, and pointed: "Oyer yon bract" They thought
at first he meant the wolf. But they Baw then that it was a man coming. no. the They Loon recognized m MacQueen.
MacQuach walked straight up to the Laird, the two big men stared at each other,
**Aweel?" said the Laird, very Bercely. The hunter said nothing. Eversono kept at a little distance-for fear of the Laird. There was a ring round the two --gog.
Then, without a word, MacQueen opened his coal. His two dogs, lying down, rosa up. From out of his coat came the black, gory, bristling head of the well.
-Dut There was a strange sort of ery: no one spoke. But at last MacQueen did.
"As I came through the slochk." he said quietly. “I foregathered wit the
·hoant. My long dog thtro turned him. I buckled wl' him, and dirkit him, and ayne whuttied his craig."
The wolf'e cmir was whuttled-his The hunter throat was certainly, cut. looked down, looked up, want on.
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N'I brought awa' his coun- tenance for fear he might come alive again. Lairdi For, forby, they are very precarious creatures, yo ken."
The Talachel in due course dispersed. The last wolf in Britain was dead. And MacQuron, the hunter of Pall-a-Chroo alu, had left nothing to chance in the killing of it.
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Then, on a heavy load being taken aboard, additional power would bo obtained by coupling up one or more of the other power units. I have seen the drawings and description of a teat carried out by the Manchester College of Technology.
The "multi-engine," which has been developed by a Manchester firm, con- sists of two Austin "Sovah" engines with arranged in tandem: fashion
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The amazing claim for this car- burettor is that it will permit a 30 h.p. 8-cylinder car to be driven 200 miles on a gallon of fuel!
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 efficiency. For instance, theso are research laboratory figures 40 per cent. of the energy contained in a gallon of petrol is used to heat the water in the radiator, 20 per cont. is wasted be- cause incompletely burned fuel is discharged from the exhaust pipe,' 20 per cent. goes to heat the gas. and 12 per cent. is lost in trans- mission and engine friction.
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AST invention is the patent taken out by Mr. Henry Ford, and to which I briefly re- ferred some weeks ago.
I have now seen the patent specification which shows it to be a design for a rear-engined ear in which the engine is set cross- wise over the rear axle. The radiator is over the near-side rear wheel, and engine, transmission and axle casing are bullt as a single unit and are mounted in rubber.
Now there is nothing new, of course, in the rear-engined car-actually, the first cars over produced had the engine over the back axic. And to-day there are a number of German cars mar koted with the engine in this position and one in Britain,
There is, of course, no indication that Mr. Fard is going into production with this type of car. He files dozens of patents every year, but few of them reach the stage of actual production.
However, in the United States, General Motors has taken with the Chevrolet the lead in numbers of cars sold, with Mr. Ford now in second place.
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Por years I have been of the opinion that the ear of the future will have the engine at the rear, and I seo no reason to alter that opinion now..
Advantages include more body space, absence of fumes and noise, better visi blilty, simple transmission lay-out, low. cost of production, and the fact that fully streamlined body would match up very well.
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