CHAPTER XX.--ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, BARD TO SIR HECTOR.

Alastair Buidhe's ancestry and youth--Appointed ground-officer and bard to Sir Hector--Instructed to remove the roof from a defaulting tenant's house--His prudent artifice approved by Sir Hector--Dr Mackenzie's recollections of Alastair as bard--His bad health, and death--His character--His friendship with William Ross--His descendants--His poetry highly appreciated 185