200 LEAVES FROM A GAME BOOK. 



CHAPTER IX. 



1893. 



The 1st of April found me once more the guest of 

 Charles Baily at the Huntly Arms Hotel, Aboyne, 

 where we stayed till the 22nd. Not a drop of rain 

 had fallen since the first week in March, the hill 

 snows had melted, while each day was cloudless and 

 hot. Fishing was nearly at a standstill, so that in 

 the time named we got but eighteen fish between us, 

 while for the last week there were three rods at work, 

 as Baily had asked Percy Laming to join him. 



Next, from May 20th to 27th, I spent a week at 

 the Station Hotel, Perth, with Mr. and Mrs. Brydges 

 Willy ams, they having just taken a lease of Battleby, 

 and going up to make things ship-shape. From there 

 we fished Dupplin Loch on the 24th and 26 th, and on 



