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The Highland Monthly.
* cogue ' to water the pony with from the roadside burns."
On his Glenlyon excursions, Mr Colquhoun hired a springcart
pony and boy from Fortingall. The pony was fat, and
disposed to take it easy, and the boy, Danie, was Hke the
pony in both respects. On the 13th September, when Mr
Colquhoun tried the pool below Craigfhianidh for the last
time, he says: — "On remarking to Danie that our line
making machine was absent from his settle at the gable of
the house, he naively answered, ' I see'd him looking oot o'
his window.' " The bad weather which had driven Peter
into the house, likewise spoiled Mr Colquhoun's sport that
day. Although Peter could speak English he did it stiffly,
and could not launch out freely in that language. Had
Mr Colquhoun been able to converse fluently with him in
Gaelic, he would have been quite as much impressed by his
intellectual gifts as he was by his manual dexterity.