FOURTH DAY.] THE INN. 89 



HAL. We are nearly a mile above our fishing 

 station, and we must first see our quarters and 

 provide for our lodging, before we begin our fishing : 

 to the inn we have only a short walk. 



POIET. Why this inn is a second edition of 

 Auchnasheen. 



HAL. The interior is better than the exterior, 

 thanks to the Laird of Brahan. We shall find one 

 tolerable room and bed, and we must put up our 

 cots and provide our food. What is our store, 

 Mr. Purveyor ? 



PHYS. I know we have good bread, tea, and 

 sugar. Then there is the quarter of roebuck, presented 

 to us at Gordon Castle; and Ornither has furnished 

 us with a brace of wild ducks, three leash of snipes, 

 and a brace of golden -plovers, by his mountain 

 expedition of yesterday ; and for fish we depend on 

 you. Yet our host says there are fresh herrings to 

 be had, and small cod-fish, and salmon, and trout in 

 any quantity; and the claret and the Ferintosh are 

 safe. 



HAL. Why we shall fare sumptuously. As it is 

 not time yet for shooting grouse, we must divide our 

 spoil for the few days we shall stay here. Yet there 

 are young snipes and plovers on the mountains above, 

 and I have no doubt we might obtain the Laird's 

 permission to kill a roebuck in the woods, or a hart 



