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A brother artist happened to find himself at Whistlefield next 

 year, and determined to fire a shot, so to speak, at the old lady. 



" That was a dreadful way you treated poor Sir Daniel MacNee, 

 Mrs. ." 



" How did I treat Sir Daniel MacNee ? " she demanded promptly. 



"Oh, he came back to London and told us you could not give 

 him anything to eat." 



" Did he say I could not give him anything to eat ?" 



" Yes ; he asked for salmon and steak and chicken, and then for 

 ham and goodness knows what else besides, and said you could not 

 give him anything but cheese and whisky." 



"Did he own to the whisky?" she demanded, with much 

 earnestness. 



" Oh, yes ; he said he got some whisky all right." 



" 'Deed it was all he wanted after all," she concluded. 



Sir Daniel MacNee was careful to add the sequel to the story 

 when he was asked to tell it afterwards. 



Fishing in Loch Eck may be secured by staying at Whistlefield 

 (under entirely new management) or at Loch Eck Hotel. Both are 

 on the Glenfinnart Estate. About 20-30 salmon and grilse and 

 about 200 sea-trout, besides a larger number of loch trout, constitute 

 the catch. Salmon have been taken up to 25 lb., but about 9 or 

 10 lb. is the average weight. 



THE RUEL. 



ANGLING SEASON : 16th February to 31st October. 

 NETTING SEASON : 16th February to 31st August. 



Glendaruel is perhaps as beautiful a glen as there is in Argyll. 

 At the head of Loch Bidden, which opens on the Kyles of Bute, the 

 entrance to the glen is surrounded by most typical Argyllshire hills. 

 Bold escarpments of rock rise one above another with great abruptness 

 to a height of over a thousand feet. The little shelving slopes and 

 terraces are richly covered with heather and grass. The lower bluffs 

 have a dense covering of trees and scrub. Here and there groups of 

 dark pines crown well-marked eminences, or shining declivities seem 

 to slide sheer to the sea. Some of the finest larches I have seen 

 anywhere stand around Ormidale, and the young Japanese striplings 

 are springing up in healthy coverts. 



Three head streams meet near Dunans at the top of the glen, the 

 central one being the longest. From the head of this Gaol glen it is 



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