CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER LV. 



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Spring — Hood's Paxody of Thomson's Invocation — The excellence of 

 Nettle-Top Soup — Cook-crowing — Birds'-nesting — Professor Geikie — 

 Ciu-ious Story of an old Pipe-Tune, 348 



CHAPTER LVI. 



Rain in Lochaber — Au Apple Tree in bloom by Candle-light — Mackenzie 

 the Bird-catcher — A Badenoch " Wise Woman " spitting in a Child's 

 Face to preserve it from the Fairies, ...... 355 



CHAPTER LVII. 



Caught in a Squall on Loch Leven — Potatoes and Herrings : How to 

 cook them — A day in Glen Nevis — A visit to Uaimh SJiomhaitie, or 

 Samuel's Cave — The Cave-Men, 361 



^ CHAPTER LVIII. 



Showers in Harvest Time — Magnificent Sunset — Night sometimes seem- 

 ing not to descend but to ascend — Death of M. Leverrier — The 

 Discovery of Neptune — Pigeon cooing at Midnight — The Owl at Noon 

 — Cage-Birds singing at Night, ....... 370 



CHAPTER LIX. 



October Storms — Cablegram Predictions — Indications of coming Storms 

 — Geordie Braid, the St. Andrews and Newport Coach-driver — The 

 Naturalist in Winter — Drowned Hedgehogs ; Spines become soft and 

 gelatinous — Lophius Piscatorkts — Disproportion between head and 

 body in the Devil-Fish a puzzle — An Itinerant Fiddler, . 379 



CHAPTER LX. 



A Trip to Glasgow — Kelvin Grove Museum — Highland Association — 



A run to Rothesay— Rothesay Aquarium, . . . . ■ . 387 



