Indeed there are folk wha says that it's just a door leadin' intae the bottomless pit itsel'." "You have been there, then ?" I asked.
"Been there!" he cried.

"What would I be doin' at the Hole o' Cree?
No, I've never been there, nor any other man in his senses." "How do you know about it, then ?" "My great-grandfeyther had been there, and that's how I ken," Fullarton answered.

"He was fou' one Saturday nicht and he went for a bet.

He didna like tae talk aboot it afterwards, and he wouldna tell a' what befell him, but he was aye feared o' the very name.

He's the first Fullarton that's been at the Hole o' Cree, and he'll be the last for me.