Note 27 — FOLK TALES.

The words of the first four lines of “the wishes,” are, as regards their form in the Gaelic text, almost unintelligible; they merely represent the sounds uttered by the reciter, without being correct either in form or composition. The sounds belonging to the first line might, for instance, have been represented thus:—’Na ana-chìnnt ’s ’n a an-shocair dhuit d’ ùidh: perhaps the utterance was intentionally ambiguous.—(Ed.)