A Wet February—A Good Time coming—Sir Walter Scott—Mr Gladstone—Death of Sir David Brewster, 44

[CHAPTER IX.]

Long-Line Fishing—Scarcity of Fish—Their Fecundity—Large Specimen of the Raia Chagrinea—The Wolf Fish—The Devil Fish, 50

[CHAPTER X.]

Birds—Contest between a Heron and an Eel, 54

[CHAPTER XI.]

Sea-Fishing—Loch and Stream Fishing—“Brindled Worms”—Rush-Lights—Buckie-Shell Lamps—The Weasel killing a Hare—Killing a Fallow Deer Fawn, 58

[CHAPTER XII.]

Extraordinary aspect of the Sun—Sunset from Rokeby—Mr. Glaisher—“Demoiselle” or Numidian Crane at Deerness—The Snowy Owl in Sutherlandshire—Does the Fieldfare breed in Scotland?—The Woodcock, 66

[CHAPTER XIII.]