The Scottish Celtic review

Mari,hre's Bhrk ]h„j. -rj-iblack dog gave out- sjiriiig, ami caught tlie liaml lictweeu tlioshoulder and the elbow, and lay on it. The play began betweenthe hand and the black dog. Before the black dog let go hishold, he chewed the hand till it fell on the floor. The thing thatwas on the top of the cave went away, and MacPhie thought thecave would be about his head. Out rushed the black dog afterthe thing that was outside. This was not time at which Mac-Phie felt himself most at ease, when the black dog left him.When the day was dawning, what but that the black dog hadreturned. He lay down beside MacPhie. In a few minutes hewas dead.When day-light cauie, MacPhio looked, and he had not a singleman of those who were with him in the cave. He took withhim the hand, and went to the shore to the boat. He went onboard ; he went home to Colonsay, unaccompanied by dog orman. He took up with him the hand, that men might see whathorror he had met with that night he had been in the cave. Noman in Isla or Colonsay had ever seen such a hand, or had everimagined that such could have existed.Nothing remained but to send a boat to Jura to take homethe bodies that were in the cave. That was the end of the blackdog's day.(Written down about twenty years ago from the dictation ofDonald Cameron, Ruag, Tiree.)Manse of Tiree,Ist Jauy, 1883.J. G. C.GAELIC ORTHOGRAPHY—COMMON MISTAKES." It often happeus that we can best teach what is right by showing what iswrong" (Stewart's Grammar, p. viii., note).The importance of a correct orthography for enabling us tounderstand clearly the principles of Gaelic construction, andeven to distinguish accurately the parts of speech, may be illustratedby the following examples of mistakes with which one frequentlymeets in Gaelic writings, and especially in the morerecent editions of the Gaelic Scriptures.