as possible, including inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation. Some corrections of spelling and punctuation have been made. They are listed at the end of the text. Italic text has been marked with _underscores_. ] MEARING STONES BY THE SAME AUTHOR THE RUSHLIGHT. THE GARDEN OF THE BEES. THE GILLY OF CHRIST. THE MOUNTAINY SINGER. [Illustration: THE WALL OF SLIEVE LEAGUE.] MEARING STONES Leaves from my Note-Book on Tramp in Donegal, by JOSEPH CAMPBELL (Seosamh Mac Cathmhaoil), with Sixteen Pencil Drawings by the Author. MAUNSEL & COMPANY, LTD., 96 MIDDLE ABBEY ST., DUBLIN. 1911. Printed by Maunsel & Co., Ltd., Dublin. CONTENTS Page In the Mountains 1 The Wander-Lust 2 The Dark Woman 2 By Lochros Beag 3 Coaching by the Stars 3 A Rainbow 3 Change 4 Prophet's Food 4 The Transient 5 Women and Hares 5 The Smell of the Town 5 Glengesh 5 Clog-Seed 6 Herbs and Flowers 6 A Young Girl 7 The General Light and Dark 7 Soul and Body 8 A Man on Shelty-Back 9 The Fairies 9 Stranorlar Station 9 Stones 10 The Strand-Bird 10 Space 10 Rabbits and Cats 11 The Glas Gaibhlinn 11 A House in the Road's Mouth 11 The Quest 12 Muckish 12 The May-Fire 12 Bloody Foreland 13 Twilight and Silence 13 The Poor Herd 14 A Mountain Tramp 14 The Festival of Death 19 In Glen-Columcille 19 The Brink of Water 20 A Dark Morning 21 The Swallow-Mark 21 Women Beetling Clothes 21 The Sea 22 A Ballad-Singer 22 Sunlight 24 Turf-Cutting 24 His Old Mother 25 A Day of Wind and Light, Blown Rain 25 Lying and Walking 26 Glen-Columcille to Carrick 26 Ora et Labora 29 Two Things that won't go Grey 29 Rundal 29 Púca-Piles 30 The Rosses 30 A Country Funeral 30 Youth and Age 31 Summer Dusk 32 A Note 32 The Peasant in Literature 32 An Insleep 33 Water and Slán-Lus 33 By Lochros Mór 33 Rival Fiddlers 34 Nature 35 Sunday under Slieve League 35 The Night he was Born 36 The Lusmór 37 Derry People 37 A Clock 38 Carrick Glen 38 A Shuiler 39 Turkeys in the Trees 39 A Party of Tinkers 39 Teelin, Bunglass, and Slieve League 40 The Shooting Star 45 Sunday on the Road between Carrick and Glengesh 45 A Roany Bush 46 August Evening 46 Near Inver 47 All Subtle, Secret Things 47 A Madman 47 Laguna 48 Near Letterkenny 48 Shan Mac Ananty 48 A Poor Cabin 51 The Flax-Stone 51 After Sunset 52 The Darkness and the Tide 53 Errigal 54 The Sore Foot 54 Asherancally 54 Orange Gallases 55 The Human Voice 55 Loch Aluinn 56 The Open Road 56 DRAWINGS The Wall of Slieve League Frontispiece Clady River, near Gweedore Facing Page 2 Pass of Glengesh " 6 Lochros Beag " 8 Muckish, with a 'Cap' on " 12 On the Road to Doon Well " 16 Near Alton Loch " 20 A Street in Ardara " 22 Falling Water " 26 Bog and Sky " 30 Mountainy Folk " 34 A Wayfarer " 38 The Horn " 42 A Clachan of Houses " 48 A Gap between the Hills " 50 Loch Nacung--Moonrise " 54 MEARING STONES IN THE MOUNTAINS "In the mountains," says Nietzsche, "the shortest way is from summit to summit." That is the way I covered Donegal. Instead of descending into the valleys (a tedious and destroying process at all times), I crossed, like the king of the fairies, on a bridge of wonder: With a bridge of white mist Columcille he crosses, On his stately...