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amateur sailors were perplexed, and we were 

 glad to get into harbour again. 



In the afternoon we went to Brodick. The 

 annual sports were being held there, in the bay 

 and on the shore under the Castle. The Duke 

 was going about among the people, and some 

 of his guests were competing for prizes. In the 

 middle of what is called a ' duck-hunt ' there 

 came on a storm of thunder and rain which 

 rather dashed the sports, but which did not 

 prevent us from making a pleasant detour 

 homeward through the grand pine-woods which 

 lie below the Castle, and are enclosed within its 

 grounds. 



When the Corrie men reached home at night 

 with their boat, which had done good service 

 against the men of Brodick and Lamlash, we 

 gave them an ovation at the quay. Willie 

 M'Niven came up smiling, of course came up, 

 one would say, rather, as an embodied smile. 

 You should have seen his magnificent chest 



