Note 36 — Chapter II · TALES ILLUSTRATIVE OF FAIRY SUPERSTITION.
Reading edition
Tha e na each bagais aig na sìthchean an càrn na Sleabhach, agus gad seillich na bhialthaobh.
Alasdair used to say the men of the present day were very small compared to their ancestors, and to prophecy with his teetotum, they would continue growing smaller and smaller, till at last it would take six of them to pull a wisp of hay.