Oct. 13, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM 
THE GILLIE HELD HIS TONGUE. 
As a rule gillies are intelligent and observant, 
and anxious to do their utmost to secure sport 
for the "gents.” Sometimes, however, friction 
will arise through misunderstanding, and when 
such is the case farewell to sport, unless the 
differences are squared up, or a change of gillie 
is obtained. I could give several incidents to 
illustrate this, but one may suffice. A middle- 
aged officer, who had spent most of his time in 
foreign service, found his way to the High¬ 
lands a few years ago for the first time. His 
gillie was a capital hand, but rather loquacious. 
The officer, who had always been accustomed to 
the strict discipline of the army, and the gulf 
which there subsists between superiors and in¬ 
feriors, thought the free and easy familiarities of 
his attendant altogether out of place. Elis ideas 
of propriety were so outraged that he snubbed 
the gillie; in fact, told him to speak only when 
spoken to. It must have been a sore trial to a 
garrulous man like this gillie to remain silent 
all day, but he did so—only answering his master 
in as few syllables as possible whenever he 
spoke. They had a hard day of it wandering 
hither and thither on the moor. On their way 
home with empty bags the sportsman was not in 
the best of humor. He remarked to the gillie 
how disappointing it was; but how could it be 
otherwise as they saw neither beast nor bird 
they could fire at? “Yes, sir,” said the gillie. 
“What do you mean?” retorted the officer. 
“Surely you don't understand me: I say we 
have not seen a head of game the whole day.” 
"I have, sir,” was the laconic reply. “Indeed! 
and what did you see?” The tongue-tied .gillie 
now burst forth with his usual volubility. “Well, 
when we was at Dalmeadhonach I seen a nice 
fat roe-puck in the brackens apout forty yairds 
awa’, and at Camusguarchan I seen some plack- 
cock, and at Lubnambirran I seen prown hares, 
and at Corrymhuiltein I seen-“And why 
the d- did you not tell me at the time?” in¬ 
terrupted the infuriated sportsman. "Jist pecause 
you ordered that I wasna to spoke at aal until I 
was to be spoken to.” The officer used language 
which need not be reproduced here; the letter D 
occupied a prominent position as an initial to 
some of his expletives. The gillie lost his place. 
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