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clothed with heather, the moor being interspersed 

 with swamp, peat hags, and those shaggy knolls 

 which are usually choice bits for old cocks. 



Here the sport was capital, as the birds sat well 

 both on the flat and hill sides. Neither "Ward nor 

 Fred shot well at first ; but they improved, and, 

 before finishing at the foot of Corrigan, they had 

 increased the bag by twenty- seven brace of grouse, 

 five rabbits, a hare, and three snipe. We had then 

 a stiff climb to get to the spring, where we lunched ; 

 but it was quite worth the exertion. 



Under a rock, which shades its pure water from 

 the sun, the "muckle spring" bubbles up in a 

 circular basin of some five feet in diameter by three 

 in depth, the water so beautifully clear that you can 

 see the smallest pebble at the bottom, and the supply 

 so ample that it overflows in a tiny stream and 

 splutters over the stones in wee dwarfish waterfalls, 

 while all around the spring the mosess are brighter 

 and the heather more intensely purple than elsewhere. 

 The water of the "muckle spring" may neither be 

 colder nor sweeter than in springs in other places, 

 but it looks so much more jolly like a magnum of 

 champagne compared with a wretched pint. 



" Ha ! this is nice," said Major Duncan. " Anybody 



