They're a bad omen, miss, for the lassie deed sudden a fortnicht later." "Did anyone else hear them ?" "Auld Willie Buchan, wha lived doon in Auchterarder village, declared that ae nicht, while poachin' for rabbits, he h'ard the voices.

He telt the doctor sae when he lay in bed a-deein' aboot three weeks aifterwards.

Ay, miss, I'm sair sorry ye've h'ard the Whispers." "Then they're regarded as a bad omen to those who overhear them ?" she remarked.
"That's sae.

There's bin ithers wha acted as eavesdroppers, an' they a' deed very sune aifterwards.

There was Jean Kirkwood an' Geordie Menteith.