Birds' -Nesting Season. 75 



Ravens' food was cheap in Scalloway, flew close over 

 us, croaking an appropriate good-bye. 



It was a farewell to the Shetlands, as well as to the 

 castle. 



On reaching Lerwick we found at the quay a 

 steamer which was to sail that night with a cargo of 

 fish and cattle, direct for Aberdeen, and as the 

 weather was still broken, and there was little more 

 that we could see, we put our things on board at 

 once, and three days later had crossed the Forth 

 Bridge, the first day it was opened for general traffic, 

 and were in London again. 



For those of us, especially whose place in the 

 procession of the generations happens just now to be 

 among the workshops on the table-land of middle 

 life, it is wholesome to be reminded every now and 

 then that time is a created thing, and life possible 

 without its limitations. 



It is a pleasant reminder of the kind to look back 

 on a holiday-trip into which the impressions of 

 twelve months seem to have been crowded, and to 

 know that while one has been away from home the 

 sun has only risen and set on as many days. 



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