BLACKGAME 241 



What a pleasant holiday it has been ! 



They came as a welcome surprise 

 these days of grace, long after your 

 regular autumn holidays were past and 

 gone. At first you were in some doubt 

 how best to use the time, till you recalled 

 the hearty invitation to come whenever it 

 suited you best, and take your chance of 

 such stray sport as might offer. Your 

 tentative wire brought a cordial reply, and 

 the result has been a week which will loner 

 live in your memory. 



The weather, for one thing, has 

 behaved itself in a manner little short 

 of exemplary, which cannot always be 

 said of it on the west coast of Scotland. 

 There had been rain and to spare the 

 week before, and the river was still 

 "fishing" the morning you arrived, and 

 before she ran out at noon you had 

 grassed two good little salmon, of eight 

 and ten pounds, among the curlews, 

 godwits, and peewits which haunt the 

 sandy wastes of the estuary. 



That afternoon you followed a brace of 



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