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who will climb to either of the hill-tops there are 

 pictures of wild moorland scenery that well repay 

 the trouble. 



On the Sunday — a non-fishing day — we marched 

 off early up the Glen to see the loch and search for 

 spots that should please the artist's eye. Many sights 

 that we two know-nothings would have wished pictures 

 of were dismissed with a wave of his hand, which seemed 

 to give all too eloquent an expression to the pity 

 he felt for our lack of the artistic gift. After most 

 careful instruction as to the manner of accomphshing 

 the duty ^ I was allowed to carry the long legs on which 

 the camera stands when in action. This to the unin- 

 itiated may appear a very trifling affair, but it is not 

 so when the journe}ing is up the side of a moun- 

 tainous hill and the sun is doing its best to cook you. 



I always understood that the photographer is a little 

 bit of an autocrat in his deahngs with ordinary mortals, 

 but I don't remember ever having so fully realised it 

 before that day. It was : 'Take this and do be careful.' 

 'Stand there — oh, please, don't shuffle, I said "stand." ' 

 *0h, there's a laugh; did you see his face, Walter, just 

 as I snapped him?' 



I declined to go all the way to the top of the high 

 hill to see the lake that is supposed to be full of trout, 

 so I sat me down by the little bum that tumbles 

 with refreshing music from the lake to the river that's 

 in the meadows down below\ 



Being rested and thirsty I got a drink from the 

 bum by dipping my nose into it. The movements 

 needed to do this brought to view clusters of wild 

 raspberries, and, w^hen I had gathered the best of 

 these, I saw that farther up the httle glen, in which 

 the bum had worked its deep cutting, there were 

 more than could be gathered in a day. I tried the 

 nuts, but they were, of course, quite soft; but I found 

 some wortleberries, and laid my handkerchief over 

 them so as to find the spot easily to show them to 



