A HIGHLAND SALMON RIVER. 1 1 1 



" I really can't say. It used to indicate acts 

 dangerous to the State ; but since mobs of scoundrels 

 give seditious lectures in the very pleasure-grounds 

 of Johnny's capital, at which papers applaud and 

 statesmen weep, it might be hard to define." 



" Humph!" growled the Major; "nice toleration, 

 instead of bundling them home at the point of the 

 bayonet." 



"Na, na! Major," I said, "they are J. Stuart MilPs 

 misguided pets. You, as a scientific man, would 

 respect THEM; that excuse is enough." 



" Yes, enough to have had him commanded to 

 cease his moonshine about conditioned and uncon- 

 ditioned, and write something of the ill-conditioned, 

 or a stump among the Sheffield saw-grinders some- 

 thing practical." 



" Hear the dreadful Tory ! " said Ward ; " but 

 politics being defendu on the moors, you are both 

 fined ten shillings." 



" "We spoke of men, and not measures, mon cher" 

 I said. 



" Pretty strong measures, Mr. MilPs disciples might 

 think ; but I endorse them freely, illos metaphysicos 

 nunquam legi since the time I muddled my poor 

 brains between the extremes of Locke and Berkeley, 



