Besides, the mad collieshangie of her hair made him laugh.

"There was an awful collieshangie, but I couldna hear much.

"We've been combin' the town for ye, Uncle Jamie, and Fergus sure ye'd been caught up in the collieshangie yonder and maimed or killed."

But there is just the one thing that I wish you would bear in view, if it was only long enough to discuss it quietly; for there is going to be a collieshangie when we two get home.