Legend
"Alexander MacDonald was for a time living in Canna. He was bailie for one of the Clanranalds when they had Canna. One fine day he was going over to Uist in a rowing boat, and some old men of the island were down at the place called Gob a' Rubha, the point past the pier. When Alexander was going past, one of the old men who was fishing for cuddies said to him: 'Won't you give your opinion of us now, Alasdair?' 'I will do that,' he said; and he said to them:
- Thug sibh ur cùl ris na creagan
- Buidheann fhiata nan glùn giobach;
- 'S olc an dream sibh, ge nach trod sibh,
- Na fir mhóra, ròmach, giobach!
- 'You with your backs to the cliffs
- A wild crowd with hairy knees;
- You're a bad tribe, even if you're not quarrelling,
- Big shaggy hairy fellows!'
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