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Am Fear-Turais	The Tourist
Fear-turais à Sasainn thàinig e staigh dhan bhàr aon oidhche ann am meadhan an t-samhraidh, e bruidhinn mu eòin a chunnaic e air eilean Threisnis - nach robh e mìorbhaileach! ceithir seòrsa thar fhichead ach aon nas lugha na 'n-uiridh. 'S ann an Sasain bhiodh e a' faicinn eòin cuideachd nuair a gheibheadh e saor o chosnadh bùirdeasach. 'S thuig mi In uair sin gum bu duine e às an fhicheadamh linn beagan ceart, beagan ceàrr, beagan bog, beagan air chall, gun e tuigsinn na bha tachairt 's ged a thuigeadh, gun e 'na chomas na h-eòin a bheannachadh ceart.	An English tourist - he came into the bar one night in midsummer, talking of birds he had seen on the Treshnish islands - wasn't it marvellous! twenty-four varieties - but one less than last year. And in England he would see birds also when he was free from his middle-class occupation. And I understood him then as someone from the twentieth century somewhat right, somewhat wrong, somewhat soft, somewhat lost, not understanding what was happening, and, even if he did, not able to bless the birds aright.
Maoilios M Caimbeul	Miles M Campbell

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