Luib A Bhodaich
Here, Willack and Jeanack recall the original bodach who lived at Lùib a' Bhodaich (Bend of the Old Man). This is the ruin just beyond Cluanie on the other side of the river.
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Willack: Aye, past loch Cluanie. You pass Cluanie Hotel. Now I don't know who was the bodach. Wait now. I don't know what bodach would be there. Luib... it's the...
Jeanack: A bend.
Willack: ....first bend. The ????? bend. But who the bodach was at that time. I'll tell you who was the bloody bodach. Coinneach a' Chatanaich is the bastard.
Jeanack: Was it.
Willack: That's who it was, yes. Coinneach a' Chatanaich. He could drink himsel upside doon.
Jeanack: He would drink Kenny.
Willack: Aye, Coinneach a' Chatanaich. That's the Cattanach Kenny isn't it.
Jeanack: A Cattanach. That's a Badenoch name. Kenny Cattanach.
Willack: Cattanach Kenny. Kenny Cattanach. Oh that's going back as far back as I can go. Jimmy Cattanach.
Jeanack: They always spoke about luibs in the old days. When Granny Grant went with the public works to Killin? Culture? - the place the works was the Luib. It was called the Luib L-U-I-B. Granny Grant was there in Perth-shire in a place called the Luib when she was cooking in the canteen for the public works when they went to do the Loch Sloy up there at Ard Luib. You saw that didn't you? The Loch Sloy business at Ard Luib. Granny was there and the Lub was the name of the place. She came off about Killin. So she said.
Willack: ?????
Jeanack: ???? talking about the Lùb.
Willack: ????? years ago???? Coinneach a' Chatanaich, I'm seventy seven and I mind him and he was time to be shot the time I seen him.
Bill: What did he do for a living though?
Willack: Keeper, keeper.
Jeanack: I remember him coming in one night and he was shoeing the Cluanie pony up there. The Coinneach a' Chatanaich. Wasn't that Evergreen Kenny. Evergreen Kenny they called him, I think so.
Willack: I remember the story ??? ??? MacRaes and they all went up to.... Kinconnel with them. Frankie came from Nairn? ???? men, the old forester at Invergarry.
Jeanack: ??? ??? ???
Willack: ???? ??? ??? MacRaes too and they came to the old home and they said, "This is the home of the famous Frankie the Invergarry forester." And he was very proud of it. He was a long long time in that house. He used to blow about it. He was a long time in that house. And he was equally as long in the damp hut too. That's one home where you could lie with your country bonnet...... ????? ??? ??? ??? ?? ??? ?? ?? drink. Everyone that wanted champion business you had to go to the pub for it.
Jeanack: He had a very clever family.
Willack: Oh aye, they were clever right enough.
Jeanack: The boys were all stationmasters.
Willack: And I like his family too.
Jeanack: Very nice.