22 WANDERINGS AND MEMORIES 



Leven, where Sir Graham Montgomery used to let 

 me have his private boat once or twice in the 

 season every year, and here I got a fine series of 

 ducks and other birds. P. D. Malloch of Perth 

 generally used to go with me, and we had great 

 times on this famous loch for many years. Once 

 during a storm I shot 107 mallard and teal in one 

 day, and one August day killed over fifty duck 

 and snipe walking round the lake, when, on arriving 

 at Duncan's Corner, a breeze from the east sprang 

 up, and we took to the boat and fished. Never y 

 before or since had I seen trout rise on Loch Leven 

 as they did that day. We killed forty, with four 

 over 3 lbs., in two drifts. 



In 1880 my brother Geoff and I made our first 

 journey to the Orkneys, and this was the commence- 

 ment of some twenty- two visits in summer, winter or J 

 spring which I spent there wild-fowling and collecting 

 birds between the years 1880-1892. With my 

 regular boatmen, James Sutherland and John 

 Sinclair on the sea, and John Omand on the Lakes 

 of Stenness and Harray, I had grand sport for many 

 years, as at that time few visitors ever came to the 

 islands or understood their facilities for wild sport. 



Good or evil fortune often turns on trifles, and 

 how England won the great Rugby match at 

 Edinburgh in January 1886 by the veriest fluke in 

 the world I can relate. 



My two greatest friends at Cambridge were the 

 brothers Jeffery. The elder brother, W. L., com- 

 monly known as " Long 'Un " (he was six feet 

 five inches), was a man of extremely amiable tem- 

 perament, and being fond of music and sport of 

 all kinds, was a general favourite. He has long 



