304. THE GOLD OF FAIRNILEE.

 

CHAPTER XIII.

‘Gold of Fairnilee.

ANDAL and Jean went to the old woman
h and comforted her, though they. could
“A not understand what she meant. She

cried and sobbed, and threw her arms
about; but, by degrees, they found out
all the story.

When Randal had told her how all he saw in
Fairyland was changed after he had touched
his eyes with the water from the bottle, the old
woman remembered many tales that she had
heard about some charm known to the fairies,
which helped them to find things. hidden, and
to see through walls and stones. Then she had
got the bottle from Randal, and had stolen out,
meaning to touch her eyes with the water, and
try whether that was the charm and whether
she could find the treasure spoken of in the old
rhymes. She went

“Between the Camp o’ Rink
And Tweed water clear,”

and to the place which lay
‘“‘ Between the wet land and the dry,”

that is, between the marsh and the Catrail.