314 WITHIN AN HOUR OF LONDON TOWN. 



always been such from the earliest records ; and 

 it would be this again if deer were permitted to 

 live here. I have heard a little about deer-poaching 

 in this land of fir and heather, and I hope to learn 

 more about it. I hope also, when the cotton-grass 

 blooms, to listen to the crooning of blackcock and 

 the bleat of snipe in this same wild region. 



THE END. 



PRINTED BY WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS. 



