She lived all alone in her shieling perched high on a steep brae looking down the glen, but she felt quite able to do for herself, and carried her eggs and butter to market as blythely as the youngest.
From the dim shieling on the misty island, Mountains divide us and a world of seas, But still our hearts are true, our hearts are Highland, And in our dreams we behold the Hebrides.
Among his love-poems the "Shieling Song" is deservedly famous.
Like many another gallant youth, he had lost his eyesight from the sharp burning sand--and was led to the shieling of his love like a wandering mendicant who obeys the hand of a child.
Yet the Shieling is inhabited, and has been so by the same person for a good many years.
Only the placard on the shieling had been damaged by the winter storms.
Even the "gingerbeer" had gone from the shieling now; but it would not be long before humanity returned once more with placard and paste-pot to appropriate the spot to base uses.
The sunlight was fading from the higher hill-tops of Skye and Glenelg as we bade farewell to the lonely shieling and the hospitable island girl.
Our shieling was a good mile lower down the stream than the artist's summer hut.
He transferred what he needed to the shieling near at hand, and thence descending every day, kept all in readiness for the expected return of the youth he loved so well.
Throughout the long summer, she, Gwynneth, Llewelyn, and the babe with his nurses, dwelt in a littleshieling on the steep sides of Penmaenmaur.
The islanders cheerfully lent what aid they could, and King Murdoch with his attendant was permanently fixed in the small shieling on the hill.
The size of my shieling tiny, not too tiny, Many are its familiar paths: From its gable a sweet strain sings A she-bird in her cloak of the ousel's hue.
And then the friendship with Kirsty Macpherson had grown out of these days too, and what happy changes it had brought to the little shieling among the crags!
Hurrying swiftly along the birk-walk, where the drooping boughs were quite golden now, she clambered up the steep ascent which led to the little shieling among the crags.
Already the little shieling among the crags began to show traces of the brighter days which were dawning.
Just before she started, Kenneth came running up to the shieling in breathless haste.
The shieling among the crags, which had been his home so long, was a roofless ruin now.
The shooting season was generally the dullest time of the year for Morag; her father being absent at the moors with the sportsmen all day long, the little shieling was more than usually solitary during those long autumn days.
Careful fingers had striven to repair the ravages of the wind and rain, for the little shieling was mercilessly exposed to both; the shelter the great gray rocks offered being a treacherous one, and its foundation damp.
Before many minutes had elapsed, Blanche's lively imagination had filled a box of such probable dimensions that her father laughingly assured her it would be much too heavy to be carried up the hill to the little shieling among the crags.
The mountains, which from the valley looked serene and blue, reared themselves above the tiny white shieling in dark towering masses, and the river seemed like a silver thread as it took its winding way through the strath.
Seeing a commodious shieling on the braeface, the young men entered, and one of them, with the object of driving dull care away, struck up a lightsome tune on his pipes.
There's nought for't but theshieling on the knowe.
The moonlight filtered through the low mist that rose half-way up the thin birch trunks on the top of the mound, but the shieling stood on a lower level, and when they went towards it the men's forms got very indistinct.
An oldshieling stands on a bit dry knowe near the middle o' the flow, and I wouldna' say but we might spend the night there, if it was needful.
Here on the night of Saturday, the 19th, among the mountains that surround Loch Morar, no better shelter could be found than a shielingused for shearing sheep.
Meall Aridh Mhic Craidh (meyoul arry vik creear), Hill of the shieling of Criadh.
Alastair Buidhe Mackay had a Lochaber lad for his servant, and it was this lad who told him for certain that the thieves were stopping that night at a shieling bothie at Scardroy.
There were shieling bothies at the foot of the glen, and the Gairloch men thought their Lochaber foes might be lying in ambush in the bothies.
Both at Kernsary and for a mile further, near the road, are the remains of cottages or shieling bothies.
It was at shieling bothies near this place that Alastair Ross called for the Lochaber cattle-lifters, as related in Part I.
Dr Mackenzie says:--"Well do I remember the dreadful shieling bothies, and I can hardly yet believe that heaps of strong healthy people actually lived and throve in them.
The news quickly spread among the shieling bothies that the stranger had gold about him.
But in Gairloch it cannot have been very desirable; the shieling bothies, of which many remains are left, were indeed miserable dwellings.
The goodman no sooner set his nose within Jock's shieling than he was convinced some horrid deed had been done.
Jock gave several long looks after Marion as she vanished on Kettlemoor, but he had left no kind of meat in her shieling when he came away, else it was likely he would have followed his mother home again.
I was reminded by the shieling and its happy inmate, of one of my father's experiences, as communicated to me by Uncle James.
After a happy union of twelve years, her husband was seized in the night in their lonely shieling by a mortal distemper, at a time when only herself and her young children were present, and ere assistance could be procured he expired.
There was no house known to them nearer than theshieling at Lowtherslacks, about two miles distant.
In the pine-wood at the back of the shieling I laid me down for a little to rest, and when once more I forced myself to go on, I was as stiff as a ship's figure-head.
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