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tlie moor," however, is some distance away, and so small 

 that it can easily be shot over in a day. My host had 

 the bad luck to injure his ankle on the first day, thus 

 being, to my great regret, incapacitated from taking the 

 hill again during the rest of my stay. I had five 

 other days on the moor, with Sir Berkeley Sheffield 

 for companion, getting just over fifty brace of grouse. 

 There is also some low ground shooting in Strath Tay, 

 with half a mile of fishing in that river; but except 

 in the early spring this is of no account, Holford's total 

 take from June to the 15 th of October being one grilse, 

 and lucky indeed to get even that! 



The 20th of August found me the guest of the Duke 

 of Westminster, on Lochmore, in Sutherland, somewhat 

 of a " far cry," for after reaching Lairg there is yet 

 forty miles of posting. All that, however, is as 

 nothing when once the hospitable doors of Lochmore 

 Lodge are reached. Then the only trouble to anticipate 

 (and the longer one stays the greater the difficulty) 

 is taking one's departure without looking and feeling 

 so dejected as to deprive one of the ability of doing 



