I04 ANGLING & ART IN SCOTLAND 



Tomdowner — wrapped it up in a newspaper and 

 presented it to the first tramp who passed that 

 way. 



The present landlord of the hotel is Mr. Peter 

 Grant, but in the eighties his father was still 

 alive — a humorous old boy, who loved nothing 

 better than to sit on one of the stone benches 

 at the inn door, and chaff Anderson the veteran 

 gillie. 



This Anderson had acted as fisherman to Lord 

 Burton at Glenquoich for many years, from whom 

 he received a pension sufficient to keep him in 

 comfortable circumstances. But, in spite of this, 

 his love of the gentle art was so pronounced that 

 he could not give up the pleasure which he always 

 found in acting as attendant to the anglers staying 

 at the hotel. He was the hero of an accident that 

 happened one year at Glenquoich, when Lord Burton 

 and Lord Hindlip (then Mr. Bass and Mr. Allsopp) 

 were fishing together on the loch, and which might 

 have terminated fatally had it not been for the 

 presence of mind exhibited by Anderson on the 

 occasion. 



It was a very rough day, and Loch Quoich can 

 be most unpleasantly squally, when one of the 



