ROMANTIC ELOPEMENT TO LOCH LONG. TWO ENGLISH LOVERS IN A MOUNTAIN CAVE.
Tiif dwellers on the shores of Loch Long and at the mouth of Loch Goil have lately found food for gossip in the interest, ing adventures of a young couple from England, who have just entered upon married life among the mountains of Argylo and Dumbarton. A little over two months ago a youna; teacher of drawing in one of the art schools of a great Midland town resolved to make his escape from a inatiimonial engagement into which ho had entered by constraint. His parents were desirous that he should marry a lady whose attractions, beyond her dowry of £2,000 a-year, weie not great. But the young man, whose father is a pastor, had fallen deeply in love with the daughter of his piincipal in the art school. Resolved to ha-ve his own way ho set oil for Kent, where his inamorata was spending her holidays, and, having met her without the knowledge of her ho&ts, he arranged the plan of campaign. Giving out to her Kent friends the story that she was going home to the city of small wares, she made oil in another direction, was joined by her swain, ami next clay both were safely moored ( in a little h't>hing village on Loch Long where the young art teacher had been in the habit in previous summers that of spending his holidays. lie had fancied by Hie Scotch marriage law they could bo " spliced " immediately on their arrival ; but the couple weie considerably taken aback when they discovered that both parties would have to reside in Scotland three week* before the marriage could be celebrated. Thereupon the swain took separate lodgings in the clachan for the young lady. Meanwhile the young lady's parents had observed the absence of the young gentleman, and had hoard fio.n Kent that their daughter had left suddenly for home. ln&tantly jumping to the right conclusion, the father, mother, and one of the young lady's brothers set off in pursuit. When they arrived at the fishing village on Loch Long the natives in the secret warned the runaways, Avho immediately made for the hills. After dark they ferried from a well-known point to the Argyllshire coast, landing at a solitary lmt near the mouth of the loch, which is celebrated in Campbells ballad of "Lord Ullin's Daughter." The inhospitable shepherd refused admission to the fugitives, and they had noothei resource but to make their way up to the hide of the mountain which is known a^ " Argyll's Bowling Green," and spent the ni^lit in one of its caves. The hiding-place is within view of the clachan on the ftuther shore, where the sympathetic natives managed to arrange things so well that the paienth were obliged to give up the cha^e. It is believed that a young gentleman resident in an old mansion on Loch Longtide hearing of the piteous plight oi the young couple, canied provisions to the cave ; and it is repotted that in thus acting as the good Samaritan he had a severe fall. When tho three weeks were up the young adventurers were married at Green ock, and they have been (-.pending their honeymoon at the fishing hamlet where they were so cordially befriended.
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Te Aroha News, 26 November 1887, Page 5
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547ROMANTIC ELOPEMENT TO LOCH LONG. TWO ENGLISH LOVERS IN A MOUNTAIN CAVE. Te Aroha News, 26 November 1887, Page 5
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