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obtrusively remarked : " Why it's just the card- 

 board effects of Earl's Court." 



While we looked and talked a shower came 

 which brought a rainbow, and the form it came in, 

 an almost completed ring, added further unreality 

 to the scene. 



Six brace of sea-trout was our evening's catch 

 and Walter and Kirk were delighted with their 

 introduction to this sporting fish. They had 

 worked their way up as far as the little loch called 

 Loch Shiel and had seen a salmon leap in it, 

 and were anxious to have a try for this on the 

 morrow if they could have the use of a boat they 

 had also seen. When they found that this was 

 possible they indulged their most hopeful specula- 

 tions as to chances of big fish, overhauled my 

 fly-books and then passed them on to me to re- 

 arrange. 



Another merry dinner-time came and another 

 course of good-humoured argument and pleasant 

 banter. Then, I know not how, the conversation 

 took a serious turn and the subject of discussion 

 was the Scottish Church and the dissension between 

 the Wee Frees and the Uniteds. I was soon out 

 of my depth as I listened to the making of points 

 which needed great store of learning in Theological 

 History. The two brothers, the accountant and 

 the singer, had, after a while, the field to themselves 

 and dug deeper and deeper into distant epochs with 

 many a " No, sir" and " Yes, sir" from each to the 

 other. The singer, with a love for fishing that 

 dominated even his love for a discussion, was the 

 first to give a qualified surrender, expressing him- 

 self as anxious to try what the Bridge Pool would 



