CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXXV. 



PAOW 



Strength of Insects — Necropliorus VespiUo, or Burying-Beetle — Foetid 

 smell of — How Willie Grimmond earned an Honest Penny in 

 Glencoe, ........... -^ 'J 



CHAPTER XXXVI. 



Seaweed as a Fertiliser — Homer, Horace, Virgil — November Meteors — 

 Gaelic Folk-Lore— A Curfew Prayer — A Bed Blessing — A Cattle 

 Blessing — Rhyme to be said in driving Cattle to Pasture — " Luath," 

 Cuchullin's Dog — Notes from the Outer Hebrides, . . . 217 



CHAPTER XXXVII. 



The Delights of Beltane Tide — Bishop Gawin Douglas — His Translation 

 of the Jlneid — The Fat of Deer — "Light and Shade " from the 

 Gaelic — Mackworth Praed — Discovery of an old Flint Manufactory 

 in the Moss of Ballachulish, ........ 



CHAPTER XXXVIII. 



Warm shower j' Summer disagreeable for the Tourist, but pastorally 

 and agriculturally favourable — Xiphias Gladius^ or Sword-Fish, cast 

 ashore during a Mid -summer Gale — Garibaldi dining on Potatoes and 

 Sword-Fish steaks at Caprera — The General's Drink — Medicinal 

 virtues of an Onion — Nettle Broth — Translation of a New Zealand 

 Maori Song, JSS 



CHAPTER XXXIX. 



f 

 Mountains — The Lochaber Axe, Ancient and Modem. . . . 2."< 



CHAPTER XL. 



Sea-Fowl — Weather Prognostics — Goosander (Mcrgus Merganser, Linn.) 

 — (Jales of Wind— January Primroses — Lachlan Gorach, the Mull 

 "Natural" — A Dancing Rhyme, . ...... 244 



