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heather, and Ward, who is fanciful, bid Archie mark 

 the place carefully, as it would be so neat to pack 

 some grouse in red, and ptarmigan in white heather. 



" Especially for E -'s box," said Fred. 



" Do you know Mrs. Dod's recipe for cooking 

 goslings, Frederick ? " 



"No. What is it?' 7 



" I wish I did know, for your sake." 



At the top of the hill we divided, Major Duncan, 

 Fred, and Archie going up by the river bend, while 

 we went down to the water to get along the banks to 

 the lower pools. 



Again, the glorious salmon stream with its rich 

 heather banks, past which the bright waters come 

 dancing and leaping over their stony beds, now paus- 

 ing to surge slowly round some sullen pool, then 

 breaking away over the shallows in sparkling bubbles 

 and rolls of silver fleece ; here pushing and fretting 

 through a narrow gorge rocky and fern clad, then, in 

 placid breadth, slipping past green braes fringed with 

 juniper and drooping birch. Truly a Highland river 

 is one of the fairest and sprightliest of Nature's 

 beauties ! 



After walking for some distance down the banks 

 we came to the first pool to be fished, Archie's 



