JULY 173 



a brisk wind from the north-west, and the 

 trout rose well. By six o'clock in the 

 afternoon, when we had to leave, the 

 two of us had caught twenty - seven. 

 Seven of the fish were almost exactly 

 1 Ib. each. We had not been fortun- 

 ate as regards the size of our trout. 

 A game-book lying in the luncheon-room 

 showed that the average weight of the 

 trout taken on Loch Ordie was consider- 

 ably above that of those in our own 

 basket. It was slightly over f Ib., which 

 is as good as the average of Lochleven 

 this season, a record year on that splendid 

 water. Trout up to 3 Ib. had often 

 been caught. Besides, the gamekeeper 

 mentioned that a few days before our 

 visit, in netting pike, he had taken from 

 a small bay, and of course returned, fifty 

 trout weighing not less than 2 Ib. each. 



Is it astonishing to find such good fish 

 so far above the level of the sea ? At 

 first it is. One thinks that the world 

 should become bleak and infertile when 

 one quits the vales. This, however, is a 



