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more stirring tales to tell than this. The mid- 

 night dynamiter, for instance, is not unknown on 

 some famous streams. There the guardians of 

 the waters run considerable risks. 



Leaving the waters, woods and fields, and the 

 charms of their open-air life must have been 

 a wrench to the keepers when they went off to 

 the war, as they did in such numbers. In Selkirk- 

 shire I came across a gamekeeper who had lost 

 one of his sons in France ; the lad was just in his 

 early manhood, and had been an under-keeper at 

 home. He knew all the ways of birds and fish, 

 and had won the regard of the countryside. The 

 father, as he went his rounds and arranged the 

 butts for the grouse-shooting, would talk of him 

 sadly, yet with pride. At Khartoum the sturdy 

 Scotch gamekeeper, whom I mentioned before, 

 wondered " what the grouse are doing at home." 

 He used to see the Field regularly at home, and 

 he sorely missed it out there. When I was able 

 to let him have a copy, his gratitude knew no 

 bounds. His thoughts turned ever to the purples 

 and browns of Scotland 



So and no otherwise so and nu otherwise hillmen 

 desire their hills. 



