r 66 ARDENMOHR. 



After lunch there was an adjournment to the 

 long heather over the rock, for a smoke in Turkish 

 "sofatude." 



The view from this spot is wild and desolate 

 enough, looking on one side across the rugged face 

 of Corrigan and on the other down the glen; but 

 yet it has a peculiar charm of its own, and one feels 

 a sense of its tranquil beauty in dreamily gazing 

 on the varied shapes of the hills, with their chang- 

 ing lights and shadows, as the summer clouds float 

 past the mountain tops, while silence broods over 

 all, save when now and then is heard the voice of 

 some wild bird, or when the light wind brings faintly 

 on the ear the soft sound of distant waters. 



After an hour of this indolent delight, the Major 

 and I took the guns to beat homewards along the 

 rough stony sides of the hill, and we had some pretty 

 shooting at single birds, and got seven brace of 

 grouse (five of the birds old cocks), besides some 

 ground game. 



At dinner we felt as if we had had only a few 

 miles' walk, and we enjoyed a fresh parcel of papers 

 and magazines ; and Fred went away to the stables 

 to have a gossip with the keepers. 



Next day Major Duncan and I beat over the 



