EEMINISCENOES OF THE LEWS. 



next steamer for Stornoway sails on Thnrsday, 

 and if you can get down to Glasgow to-morrow 

 you will eatcli the Mary Jane, and get to Storn- 

 oway on Saturday. Stay there a week, fish as 

 much as you like, and make any inquiries you 

 please. Look at our game-books and judge for 

 yourselves ; but if you take anything there and 

 afterwards don't like it, don't say you were 

 done." Accordingly we took that straight- 

 forward gentleman's advice ; and I have often 

 and often thought of his words when experience 

 taught how perfectly accurate they were. We 

 went back home for a few traps and our fishing- 

 rods, and started for Glasgow the next morning, 

 whence we sailed in the Mary Jane north- 

 ward, ho ! 



Reader, are you fond of the sea ? Do you 

 love dancing in a cockle-shell over the blue sea- 

 lochs of the north-western coast of Scotland ? 

 If so, sail or steam from Dumbarton to Storno- 

 way ; and if you have the steamer a good deal 

 to yourself, without too many passengers — 

 children in particular— without too many sheep 

 or cattle, or any other incumbrance, and with 

 fine weather (all things of not very frequent 

 occurrence), if you do not enjoy it, stop at Glas- 

 gow the rest of your life. Down the Clyde by 

 Arran, and round the Mull of Cantire, with a 



