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used the word " tourist," it may be thought by some 

 in a disparaging sense, and I may have given offence 

 when I certainly did not mean it. If so, I am 

 heartily sorry. I have heard, I am ashamed to say, 

 men who ought to know better sum up the whole 

 class much as " Scotus " summed up deer-stalkers 

 as " d d snobs of tourists " a piece of silly unman- 

 nerly impertinence, redounding only on the utterer 

 thereof. Year after year I meet many tourists in the 

 north in search of health and relaxation. May they 

 get what they go to seek ! Keen fishermen, keen 

 naturalists, men of education, and good fellows, they 

 would be equally keen with the gun and the rifle did 

 their time and circumstances admit of it. Such are 

 not the men who insist on trespassing and spoiling 

 the sport of others. They would no more think of 

 doing so than they would of posting you an ounce of 

 dynamite, cutting your cow's tail off, or writing to 

 the ' Scotsman.' It is your Billions Birmingham 

 Beauty, under whatever nom de plume he may choose 

 to write, who does so. Cock of the walk at home, 

 where he spends eleven months in the year sanding 

 his sugar and overworking his operatives, he finds 

 himself nobody in the Highlands. Starting some 

 fine morning on the " I'll go where I please " theory 

 selfishly indifferent whether he spoils the sport of 

 better men than himself, ay, and harder-working ones 

 too he gets bundled "neck and crop" out of the 

 forest, and vows vengeance. He'll "show up the 



