128 A FISHER-DOG. [PART I. 



side, and awkward to get at on the other, it is 

 almost useless to attempt spinning it from the 

 shore. 



A shooting-lodge, which I occupied with some 

 friends for a couple of seasons close to a sea-loch, 

 in Ross-shire, has been mentioned elsewhere in 

 these pages. One of the principal dependents (in 

 his own estimation) attached to it was a stocky 

 little yellow terrier, not smooth, nor of the shag- 

 giest, but of a kind of intermediate roughness, 

 whose two chief personal characteristics were a sin- 

 gular bunch of light yellow hair, about an inch 

 and a half long, projecting from the outer corner 

 of each eye, which gave him a very grotesque 

 appearance ; and the determination with which, 

 never keeping more than three legs in work at 

 the same time (as is the habit of such dogs) he 

 changed from one hind leg to the other at every 

 two steps when on the march. 



Although he took a great interest in all field- 

 sports in which he had an opportunity of joining, 

 yet fishing was the one which possessed for him 

 the most particular attractions, and in which he 

 principally excelled. His proper owner, who 

 resided at a considerable distance, had formerly 

 lent him to the keeper, when, having once tasted 



