H LEAVES FROM A GAME BOOK. 



knickerbockers, and hurrying a covert coat over his 

 night-shirt, with stockingless feet thrust into a pair of 

 ** hardy brogues," in this get-up he presented an appear- 

 ance at which we had many a hearty laugh. 



At the east end of Corrour, and now, I believe, in 

 view of the railway to Fort William, is the celebrated 

 Loch-an-Chlaidhame, or Sword Loch, and as thousands 

 of tourists will now view it from the train, while perhaps 

 some even will stroll rod in hand around its peaty banks, 

 the story of how the loch won its name fully deserves a 

 notice, the more so as the facts are well authenticated. 

 In the middle, then, of the sixteenth century, Cameron 

 of Lochiel owned Ben-y-Vricht, with Corrour and most 

 of the land adjacent. Between him and the Earl of 

 Athol there existed a long-standing dispute as to their 

 marches and grazing rights on certain of the eastern 

 slopes of Ben-y-Vricht, which were then, even as they 

 are now, famed for rich pasturage ; hence, many were 

 the sanguinary petty fights continually taking place 

 over this disputed point between the followers of the 

 two lairds. It happened that Lochiel met the Earl of 



