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Folk-Lore and Legends - Scotland by Anonymous
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when the can was full, and the dwarf departed with expressions of
gratitude.

Some years afterwards the Laird being at the wars in Flanders was taken
prisoner, and for some reason or other (probably as a spy) condemned to
die a felon's death. The night prior to the day for his execution, being
confined in a dungeon strongly barricaded, the doors suddenly flew open,
and the dwarf reappeared, saying--

"Laird o' Co',
Rise an' go."

a summons too welcome to require repetition.

On emerging from prison, the boy caused him to mount on his shoulders,
and in a short time set him down at his own gate, on the very spot where
they had formerly met, saying--

"Ae gude turn deserves anither--
Tak' ye that for being sae kin' to my auld mither,"

and vanished.




EWEN OF THE LITTLE HEAD.


About three hundred years ago, Ewen Maclaine of Lochbuy, in the island of
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