# The real Mackay

Author: Mackenzie, Donald A. (Donald Alexander), 1873-1936

Genre: Category: Plays/Films/Dramas

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75546

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+real+Mackay+Mackenzie&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

SCENE: _The “best room” in a crofter’s cottage in the Scottish Highlands. To the left a small open window, round which honeysuckle clings and blooms, affords a glimpse of a blue loch, softly screened by the drooping branches of a silver birch, and glistening in bright sunshine. Beside the window Màiri Mackay sits knitting a white shawl. A folding table, with the leaves down, occupies the centre of the room and is covered with a Mackay tartan plaid. Upon it stands a dark blue bowl filled with wild roses. Widow Mackay sits to the right, at her spinning wheel, between the table and a wide, open fire-place. Peat smoulders in the grate. To the left of the fire-place is an “easy chair” (a plain...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-real-mackay-75546/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-real-mackay-75546/chapters/2/index.md)