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felt to be coming, is better attuned to hope and joy. 

 And, whatever be the season, is it not something to 

 float all day beneath the shadows of Ben Venue and 

 Ben Lomond, forgetting until eve, though then you 

 are pleased to remember, that in three hours you may 

 be back in Edinburgh or Glasgow, a better man in 

 soul, body, and mind ? "I shall never think on Loch 

 Ard but the thought will gar me grew [shudder] again," 

 said Bailie Nicol Jarvie, thinking of the indignity he 

 had suffered and the murder he had seen. " I shall 

 never think on Loch Ard but the thought will soothe 

 and cheer me," will be the exclamation of every true 

 angler or lover of nature that has dreamed away a 

 day in that lovely scene, where, if his fish happened 

 to be few, his thoughts ought to have been the more 

 abundant. 



A. R 



