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thing about " an express bullet," " slippery 

 rocks," " glancing off," but more than that we 

 could not gather. I have my suspicions' what 

 was meant. Next day we went south. There 

 was one little incident which happened on this 

 last evening I ought to mention. We have a 

 boy, Jack — a likeable lad, as every one says, for 

 a ten-year-old. I can only say that he is his 

 father done small. Well, Jack came rushing 

 into the dining-room to show us an acquisition. 

 He held at arm's-length the stuffed skin of a 

 Barn-owl, to which was hanging a ferret. I 

 looked across to my husband, and said it was 

 a case of " inherited instinct." He called me a 

 " Darwinian fool." That night I locked up 

 the " G-lenlivet," and secreted the keys. It was 

 time. 



I want to say that the Grouse cost us thirty- 

 eight shillings apiece; the Eoe-Deer £105. 

 We were in the Highlands seventeen days. 

 Last year my bill for dress-making and milli- 

 nery came to £70. I mentioned these little 

 facts to my husband. He told me that "the 

 birds wouldn't lie," " the dogs were not pro- 

 perly trained " (he gave forty guineas for a brace 

 of pointers just before we started) ; that " the 



