274 HIGHLAND SPORT 



With reference to Loch Leven, I can strongly advise any- 

 one wishing to put away a few spare days to give it a trial, and 

 in my opinion August is the best month, for though sport may 

 not be quite so good as earlier in the season, the fishing club 

 " competeetions " have then come to an end, which allows of a 

 boat being secured without the necessity of engaging it very 

 long beforehand. 



It is at times quite extraordinary what good sport may be 

 had at driven grouse by but two or three shooters, and with 

 the latter number I once helped to secure fifty-eight brace 

 in a few hours at Huntly Lodge, Aboyne. This good bag 

 for Scotland was made by the aid of seven beaters, four of 

 whom acted as drivers, whilst the other three were posted 

 near the occupied butts in such positions as were best calculated 

 to turn the birds to the guns, and Mr. Dyke's one gun grouse 

 drive well exemplifies how much good generalship will help 

 to swell the bag. 



Although, perhaps, enough has already been written here 

 on the subject of deer-stalking, I cannot refrain from relating 

 an odd adventure which occurred to me at Corrour. I had 

 left the lodge early, and after making a circuitous round of 

 some twenty miles found myself in the dusk of an October 

 evening on the Ben Alder march. The road home took me 

 past old Allan McCallum's cottage on Loch Osslan ; as this 

 was the half-way house, on arriving there at about seven 

 o'clock I was tempted to sit down by his peat fire and take 

 a cup of tea, and once seated I lingered on, glad to rest 

 while gossiping deer with the veteran stalker. Somewhere 

 about nine o'clock I started to finish my journey to Corrour, 

 which was some five miles distant, while it must be stated 

 that this was then one of the least inhabited and most desolate 

 parts of Scotland. 



It was a pitch-dark night, so much so that at times I was 

 forced to search for the track with my stick as if I had been 

 a blind man, which to an already tired traveller was but a 



