It's all afloat,-hair-brushes out on voyages of discovery, and a horrid little kelpie sculling round on a hat-box!"
"We Girls: A Home Story"
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
Hoo kenned ye it was a kelpie-it's maist as dark's pick?
"Warlock o' Glenwarlock"
George MacDonald
"There, kelpie, lie there," he continued, returning to the hearth, and, addressing a small, white, shaggy dog, which, with a human look in its round, pink eyes, obeyed the voice it knew and loved, and crouched down in the corner at a safe distance from the young lady, whom it seemed instinctively to know as an enemy.
"Bad Hugh"
Mary Jane Holmes