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increased sport in each of these rivers ; and thus with 

 the greatest interest I look forward to revisiting Lang- 

 well in April. 



The 11th of August found me again visiting Harry 

 Holford at Glenfeochan House, some four miles south 

 of Oban. The 12th was too wet for sport; but, 

 starting on the 13th, in six days of very unsettled 

 weather, we bagged, to two guns, 196 grouse, with a 

 few ducks, black-cock, and hares. Sometimes my host 

 shot with me, at others E. St. Quentin or Hardress 

 Stevenson made the second gun. Owing to previous 

 bad seasons, the bag was limited to 150 brace ; but 

 the grouse ground, if properly nursed and burnt, 

 should soon be capable of yielding double that. One 

 of the sporting features of Glenfeochan is the rabbit 

 shooting, for,, without ferreting overnight, three or four 

 guns, walking in line across the bracken-clad hills on 

 the side of Loch Feochan, could kill from seventy to a 

 hundred bunnies in a few hours, while, as they would 

 all be bolting at best pace, very quick shooting was 

 necessary. At this pretty sport I had some very nice 



