Tim Kelly was coming one night from Dungarton at a late hour, the time that ghosts are usually out, up the glen called the Poll Cam, when he suddenly espied a ghost, 1 * a terrible tall one altogether, about ten feet, and says he to himself, says he,-"Goodness gracious! I'm done for now; what will become of my wife and poor children ? " And only for his old mule, he couldn't get away from the ghost at all. When he was coming towards his house he had every shout, saying,-"Brighid! 15 Open the

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... r, Brighid!" And his wife opened the door, and to her surprise in came Tim and the mule and all. And only for the wife closing the door, in was the ghost too. Tom Daly, called the "Cuinne," 1 * who had been with Tim, had disappeared from Tim as the ghost came down upon him, and was found the following morning after falling over the raised path through the Poll Cam. He had smashed his braces, but otherwise he was safe and sound. He came home saying,-"Dealing mother, I'm kilt after the night; 'tis I did see the sight,-ghosts and spirits around me all night, screeching and bawling! Put down a kettle o' tea, and maybe it will revive me a little 1" How Jim Hackeit saw a Spirit. 14 This and the ghost in the next story are different manifestations of the spirit of a certain soldier in Cromwell's army who died in the Glen. »" Bridget." '•So called from his habit of sitting in the corners of cottages next to the hearth. 44 Cuinne " (pron. Coongey), means corner.