CHAPTER VI 



JUNE 



Lochleven Its Puzzling Fish Are they Seatrout? 

 Why Worry? The Scene at the Jetty System of 

 Drifts Punctual Flies Dashing Trout Fear and 

 Hope "A Burst of Flies" Thoughts on the 

 Weather After all, a Good Day A Strange Spec- 

 tacleIs the Devil really Dead ? The Mayfly ! 



WITHIN forty minutes after passing 

 through Edinburgh railway travellers to 

 the Highlands catch a glimpse of water 

 in an extensive plain. Though the lake 

 is bounded on the east by the Lomonds 

 and on the south by the Cleish Hills, 

 the scenery is not so attractive as that 

 through which the train will ere long be 

 speeding ; indeed, it is tame, and if the 

 sky is dull it is depressing. Nevertheless, 

 the lake is in one respect the most 

 famous in the world. It is Lochleven, 



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