CHAPTER III.--POLITY AND CUSTOMS.

Improvement after the "Forty-five"--Increase of schools--Report on educational position of the people by Rev. James Russell--Education under the School Boards--Relief of the poor--Beggars almost unknown--Tramps--Tinkers--Old man seeking America--Her Majesty's note about him--Old marriage customs--Funeral customs--Whisky at funerals--Heaps of stones at halting-places--New Year's day, old style--Administration of justice at the Island of Justice--Mode of procedure--The Cnoc a Chroich, or Gallows Hill--Some old Gairloch men acquainted with folk-lore 114