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bungalow at Cairnton, some two miles above Banchory. 

 Here, likewise, we did not do much better than at 

 Aboyne, as six days yielded only twelve captives — 

 four to my host's rod, four to mine, and four to that 

 of David Rae, the fisherman — which was a poor return 

 for this justly famed and beautiful stretch of water, 

 which for its extent is perhaps the best reach in all 

 Deeside, as it is " good " from the opening day of the 

 season right up to the closing one. 



August the 12th found me again at Elibank, where 

 in ten days shooting my host and I got 348 head, 

 of which 324 were grouse. On the 20th of August, 

 as the shepherd had to gather his sheep off the hill, 

 we quitted Elibank on a trouting expedition to Loch 

 Leven, when, on reaching Kinross that evening, we both 

 became somewhat depressed by the numbers of other 

 anglers staying in the hotel, for this was our first 

 experience of this famed loch ; and thus it came to pass, 

 on the morning following our advent, we wended our 

 way to the waterside with no great keenness. 



On arriving at the pier and boat-house, from which 



