INVERERNE. 



INTRODUCTION. 

 I. 



MORAY REVISITED. 



AFTER such a long absence it was most interesting to visit old 

 haunts and localities in Moray shire. From the railway station 

 at Torres a path leads across the field to the river Findhorn 

 distant about three-quarters of a mile. Here I found the Ferry 

 still worked with a flat-bottomed boat (a coble in Scotland) 

 pulled from bank to bank by a wire stretched over the water. 

 The ferryman's hut was, I verily believe, the same log cabin. 

 How often I have called the boatman from his quiet siesta on 

 a warm sunny afternoon. Here the river is exactly as it used 

 to be. Its rich brown clear water gives the sides and silvery 

 underneath parts of the fresh running salmon a tinge of brown 

 when he turns from a rise. Following the river down a mile 

 or so to its mouth it was difficult to realise that so many years 

 had passed since I used so often to do so. The pools were 



