The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-02-08

shelter for sheep. Very like 1t began Z
oy being a tod's hole, and was torn {
bigger with Ogilvy dirks. If it ever ex- K
the lair has been long filled up
with stones, which are all that re- {
main to mark the royal residence.
Sheep again shelter in the bield, !
but there were none there in the time
of the prince, if it was he, o as they t
say could food be passed to him. In his ]
he was saved by Some One
Who Was with Him. OF course, the
legend has it that she was young, and
fair, and of high degree, and that she
loved much. She fed him with the
unwilling help Of the eagles. The
Eagles Rock, which is not far from the
bield, is a mighty mass, said the gh1llles
of today to be unscalable by man be-
cause of what is called the Logan Stone.
No eagles build there now; they have
fallen to the guns of their modern
enemy, the keepers, who swear that
n pair of eagles will carry a hundred
grouse or more to their nests to feed
their young. But at that time there !
was an eagles nest on the top OF the
rock.
The climb is a perilous one, but now
and again hardy folk get up as Tar
as the Logan Stone, where they turn
back. There are Logan Stones, I am
told, throughout the world, and they
are rocking stones. It is said they may
be seen rocking in the wind, and that
they never lose this property, though
with the centuries they wear small.
Such a monster hangs out from our
Eagles Rock, and you cannot reach the
top save by climbing over 1t, nor can
YOU get on to the stone without leap
ing, and it is as rounded as an egg.
Twice men of the glen have leapt and
it threw them off.
Nathless, the story is that this Some
One Who Was with Him got through
: the searchers in the dark, reached the
TOP of the rock by way of the Logan
Stone, and after sometimes 1lghInis
the parent eagles for possession Dug
down young grouse for her lord. ny
all kind accounts she was a malden
i and in our glen she is remembered by
the white heather which, never seer
f here till then, is called the marks OF
t her pretty naked feet.
It brought her little luck. In a u
ried and maybe bloody fitting she wa:
s left behind. Nothing more is RECORDED
J.. of her except that when her master
e embarked for France he enJolned nj
H%ighlanders ITO feed her and mono
her as she had fed and honored him:
They were faithful though misguided
e and I daresay they would have done
d if thew could. Some think, accordln
e to the doctor, that she is in the blel
!, in the hole beneath the stones SUI
waiting. They say, maybe there wa
= a promise. To what clan she belonge
is unknown, but in the glen they thu
# was probably one that is a httl
r better than the rest.
- III. THE SPECTRUM
Ter 2 (cont'd)-"I am thinking" D
n John went on, "that all n da1tne'
# about folk of nowadays meetlr
Strangers when the glen IS ocke
comes out of that troubled past. In
ty white winter, as you have Jalouse
or yourself, folk bark back by the heartl
id stones to the forgotten, aye, and Il
IN forbidden. But I assure you, despl
the whispers, the very name OF u
in as is now g~rass-grown in this gle
t. Even Posty, though he is sib with T.
nv mines. gets dunder-headed If you pre-
him about what his old ballants mea
tie Neither good luck o mischief, so
as 7 can discover, comes to the havr'
an who think they have talked or walk
I'M with a Stranger, unless, indeed, as sol
or saw II; was n of them who malrJer
moor Mr.. H., and I understand he, (
nv ing a learned man, always called II
er, Spectrum"
led This set us talking Of him OF VIII
:. 7 have already limited that ne OF
kent a diary in this manse. It was
nd long ago as to be just a legend e.
tn DR.. John, in the days when tn
his were no seats in my Kirk ana all s''
7ay on their shanks. Though l say
yht talked about him we really salo v
on little, unless an occasional 1ur'
of glance be speech. All in these pr
ard become furtive when a WORD, 1an
lad as meaningless you would say a
m cinder on the hearth, brings the
gin man to mind.
was Mr. II. was a distant predecessor
ich. mine. and a scholar such as the ma
an is not likely to know again. IL "as
who collected the library OF o e1
ling ition that is in the presses OF this &c
tod, manv of the volumes bound or reoo
,ay- bv his fond hands. His diary was "
ILL ten on the fly leaves of a numbe'
for them. I believe he thought IN L
.ars, and Greek quicker than in his
i in tongue, for hurried notes are o
rch- in those languages and the mor
with lberate ones in ours.
hing I am in a ounces a Will VI,
t at Greek, but I can plod along WI
face latin dictionary, and entries IN
|n a latin have made me so uneasy tt
have torn out the pages and bu
the them, MI. Carluke, whom I succ
heir ed. had to confine himself to the
ouse lish bits, and he treated some OF
similarly, for, as he said to me-
' BY were about things that will not {
liked all. They appear suddenly al
were matter grandly put, as H. you :
o an saw. a rat had got at the pages. M