JUNE 137 



ately after going off; but there will be 

 no real loss of time in the two-hours row 

 to the other side of the water. 



Joyous is this scene at the jetty. To 

 each angler, or to each two anglers, a 

 particular boat has been allotted at the 

 office, close by, and gillies step briskly 

 along the jetty shouting The Mary 

 Section \ The Mary Beaton \ and other 

 names, now those of boats, which are 

 picturesque in historical romance. Soon 

 there is nobody about the jetty, and, so 

 far as can be seen by anyone habituated 

 to the short vistas of London, nobody 

 on the water. The fleet is dispersed 

 far and wide upon the lake, beyond the 

 range of the unaccustomed eye. 



This is not what would happen on an 

 ordinary loch. On such a water the 

 boats would be clinging to the shores. 

 That is because ordinary lochs are 

 shallow enough for trout-fishing only for 

 a few yards from the land. Farther out 

 than that most of them, in the High- 

 lands, have depths greater, often much 



