With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . tain height abovethe Avater, the birds outside, seeing themselves init, would swim up, thinking that their reflectionsrepresented other and bolder members of theirspecies. He was, in additi(jn to being a skilled hand atthe pipes, a most kindly, good-natured fellow. Onemornmg we visited his cottage at six oclock, andfound him bustling about and feeding some poorold wayfarer, avIio had dropped in to see him, with 310 WITH XATUUE AXL) A CAM KB A. liberal supplies of rum and luilk and
With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . tain height abovethe Avater, the birds outside, seeing themselves init, would swim up, thinking that their reflectionsrepresented other and bolder members of theirspecies. He was, in additi(jn to being a skilled hand atthe pipes, a most kindly, good-natured fellow. Onemornmg we visited his cottage at six oclock, andfound him bustling about and feeding some poorold wayfarer, avIio had dropped in to see him, with 310 WITH XATUUE AXL) A CAM KB A. liberal supplies of rum and luilk and cake. The oldfello\y, who evidently belonged to the neighbour-hood, told us that he remembered the time whensmugglers used to hide their contra]jand goods inthe middle of the wood we were then in. OneSunday morning, whilst out for a stroll, lie cameupon a man guarding a cargo of S2)irits which wasto be taken further inland, and the smuggler beggedof him not to inform the authorities. Did he give you any, bor? inquired thedecoy-man laughingly. Tliat he did, answered the old man; an Ididnt tell on him WILD DUCK ON HER NEST. CHAPTER X. PEOPLE WE HAVE MET. OUR travels up and down the British Isles liavenaturally thrown us among-st curious charactersof all classes, and it is my intention to relate inthis chapter something of our doings with themost interesting of them. In the late spring of 1895 my brother andI left Oban in a steamer plying amongst theWestern Isles of Scotland. The passengers we meton board were of a rather mixed order—tourists,missionaries, Higldand servants of both sexes ontheir way to or from engagements, commercialtravellers, pedlars, and migrants. One hearty old Highland woman and her buxomdaughter were moving to the bleak and lonely Isleof Rum, with their few sticks of household furni-ture, a cow, yearling calf, and half a dozen domesticfowls. The cow had not been milked the morn-ing she was put on board, and as the day woreon the poor creatures u
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