title: Jack and the Devil's Purse: Scottish Traveller Tales
author:  Duncan Williamson 
description: <span style="">An important part of our heritage to be treasured and shared</span> (<i>Scottish Home and Country</i>)<br /><br /><span style="">Duncan is a first-class storyteller</span> (<i>Northern Times</i>)<br /><br /><span style="">Superbly handled, as you would expect from this acknowledged master of storytelling</span> (<i>The Scots Magazine</i>)<br /><br /><span style="">An important part of our heritage to be treasured and shared'</span> (<i>Scottish Home and Country</i>)<br /><br /><span style="">Superbly handled, as you would expect from this acknowledged master of storytelling'</span> (<i>Scots Magazine</i>)<br /><br /><span style="">Duncan is a first-class storyteller'</span> (<i>Northern Times</i>)
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  Fall From Grace
  
  by
  
  Jill Barnett
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Dear Reader,
  
  Welcome to the Highlands! "Fall from Grace" was originally published as part
  of a Scottish collection titled Highland Fling, which has been out of print
  for years. Creating Colin, Grace, and her inept band of Highland outlaws was
  great fun. I can still remember laughing at them. In answer to your many
  requests, Pocket is republishing the original story, with a few
  additions—special moments I always wished were in the story the first time
  around.
  
  Enjoy the fun,
  
  Jill Barnett
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Devil is always good to beginners.
  
  —Auld Scottish proverb
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  The
  
  
  man was out cold.
  
  Grace McNish sat on his chest, looking down at him. Well, she thought, her
  head was surprisingly clear considering she had just slipped and fallen from
  an old rowan tree, and had had the blessed good fortune to land upon a
  dastardly McNab.
  
  She did remember him riding up the trail as if he owned it, the vile McNab
  plaid wrapped