It's also a local tradition that all those who hear the whispered warning die within forty days." "Bosh, my dear! utter rubbish!" the old man laughed.

"Who's been trying to frighten you ?" "Nobody, dad.

I merely tell you what the country people say." "Yes," he remarked, "I know.

The story is a gruesome one, and in the Highlands a story is not attractive unless it has some fatality in it.
Up here the belief in demonology and witchcraft has died very hard.

Get down Penny's _Traditions of Perth_--first shelf to the left beyond the second window, right-hand corner.