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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: that when she perceived and felt the transformation which was
about to take place, she exclaimed to the treacherous fiend, "Ah,
thou false thief! lang hast thou promised me a grey gown, and
now I am getting ane that will last for ever." The dimensions of
the pillar, and of the stones, were often appealed to, as a proof
of the superior stature and size of old women and geese in the
days of other years, by those praisers of the past who held the
comfortable opinion of the gradual degeneracy of mankind.
All particulars of this legend Hobbie called to mind as he passed
along the moor. He also remembered, that, since the catastrophe
had taken place, the scene of it had been avoided, at least after
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