The Scottish Celtic review

'Macplwes Bind- Do;/. 271come forward." Mnrriru^ went up Inrward, ami what sliouldcome in bis way but a bitcli as beautiful as ho had ever seen, andshe had young pups. He saw a pup with her, black in colour,that ho had never seen a pup so black or so beautiful as it was." I shall have this dog," said MacPhie to the man. " No," said theman, "you will get your choice of the dogs she has, but you willnot get that one." " I will not take any that she has," saidMacPhie," "but this one" "Since you are resolved to have it,"said the man, " it will not do for you but the service of one day,and it will do that well for j-ou. Come back on a certain nightand you will get it."MacPhie reached the place ou the night he had promised tocome. They gave him the dog, " And take care of him well," saidthe old man, "he will never do service for you but the one day.The black dog began to grow a beautiful whelp, that no one hadever seen a dog so large or so beautiful as it was. When MacPhiewent out hunting, he would call the black dog, and the black dogwould reach the door, and would then turn back and lie where itwas before. The gentlemen who used to come to MacPhie'shouse would be urging him to kill the black dog, that it was notworth feeding. MacPhie would say to them, to let it alone, thatthe black dog's day would come yet.After this, a number of gentlemen came across from Islay tovisit MacPhie, and to ask him to go to Jura to hunt. Jurawas at that time a desert, without a man dwelling in it, andwithout a place in the world like it for hunting deer androe. There was a place there where it was usual for gentlemenwho went himting to stay, which was called the Big Cave. Theymade ready a boat to cross the sound that day. MacPhie rose togo, with sixteen young gentlemen along with him. Each one ofthem called the black dog, and he reached the door and returnedand lay down where he was before. " Shoot him," said theyoung gentlemen. "No," said he, "the black dog's day has notyet come." They took their way to the shore, and the wind rose,and they did not get across that day. They made ready nextday to go ; the black dog was called, and he reached the door,and went back where he was before. " Kill him," said thegentlemen, " and don't be feeding him any longer." " I will notkill him," said MacPhie, " the black dog's day will come yet."But they failed to get across that day also, from the violence of