94 ANIMAL LIFE ON THE 
and explanation, we expect to hear of the landed proprietors 
laying hold of the crabs as their own property, and their 
gamekeepers setting up aquariums in their kennels for the 
raising of good stocks of hunting crabs. 
CHAPTEE XL 
ON LUNDERSON BAY. 
WE are on the southern bight of Lunderson Bay, 
. , immediately beneath the kennels of Ardgowan 
House. The crops have been gathered in, the fields are 
grey and bare, the leaves in serried masses give forth their 
crisp musical rustle beneath the tread of our feet, and 
where their green verdure so recently delighted the eye, the 
grim arms of the monarchs of the woods are showing their 
naked forms. 
The day is calm and clear, with only a chill of winter's 
breath to tell us of the change and of what is coming. The 
blue wreaths of smoke across the Firth are lazily rising 
from the quiet villas of Innellan; the green, low-lying hills 
of Bute seem quite at hand through the rarified air, and away 
in the far background, high over all, Arran's Glen Sannox 
and Glen Kosa plainly present their grey cliffs and red scars. 
Turning our faces to the woods the red sandstone rocks 
rising above the road skirting the bay, burst prominently 
forth here and there amongst the bare, blackening arms 
of the trees. Along the whole coast these rocks every 
now and again crop up, rising to a height of from 50 to 
