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snipe-shooting round Stornoway, when we 

 roved where we liked, and nearly bagging two 

 old women close into the huts at the end of the 

 town ? And the snipe- shooting at Gress and 

 round Agnish point ; and old Alexander, our 

 great pal, who was seldom sober, and never 

 bought and sold when he was, for fear of being 

 taken in ? , And do you remember the grand 

 entertainment at Stornoway on the occasion of 

 the wedding of one of our friends in the town, 

 when festivities commenced at three in the 

 afternoon with a sumptuous dinner, when 

 everybody made speeches and gave toasts, 

 and swam in Champagne till eight ? Then 

 dancing commenced, and continued — with con- 

 stant refreshment, whisky cold and without, or 

 hot and with, or real cold, as the Highlander 

 prefers (that is, pure) — till half-past six in the 

 morning, when you and I, and your dear little 

 wife, turned out of a fine April morning with 

 the sun shining in our faces, not so very much 

 the worse considering ; but that under her 

 convoy we reached your habitation, the cottage, 

 in safety. Do you remember all these things 

 now, dear Dick, in your quarters in Halifax ? 

 And, as you go in for moose deer and North 

 American salmon, and look after the wood- 

 cocks with poor Duke, that I sent you out — 



