58 FACT AGAINST FIOTIOX. 



imfouiKlecl discontent and dissatisfaction towards 

 tlioso employers under Avliom tliey so long had had 

 their fair share of gain. As long as there are men 

 in this world possessed of evil tongues and no real 

 wish to benefit their fellow-creatures, without one 

 useful quality by which to rise to the notice of 

 their fellow-menj such prating demagogues will, as 

 putridity ever does from the bottom of a river, rise 

 to the surface of the waters, after all to be looked 

 on but as ^^ scum." 



In Scotland they very often make a great outcry 

 against the game laws and the deer forests ; but 

 there is a fact that has come within my notice, and 

 that is, that a deer forest in Scotland often affords 

 more employment to the labouring classes, in the 

 shape of gillies, than the forest would do if turned 

 into a walk for sheep. All heathery moors and 

 mountains will not carry sheep, but men who know 

 nothing of what they prate about, think that corn 

 and sheep will grow like grass on a moistened 

 piece of flannel. 



In the course of my experience from among the 

 thousands of mortal-men-bubbles that I have seen 

 force themselves to the surface, and seek some 

 notice from better men than themselves, I have not 



