. Wanderings of a naturalist . -«&^.;_. .-.^ -;. Across the snow-covered tops. ■-»*€■^<«»S?:. ^Ssfc. Spying the OCTOBER DAY IN THE FOREST. Ben MacDhui in September Cairngorms were clear to the tops. In Coire an Lochan ofBraeriach several snow fields of the previous winter stilllingered, and even in one of the westerly corries of Cairn-gorm the snow had not all melted. In the windless air themurmur of the Bennaidh carried far, and with the coming ofnight the stars shone forth, and over the countryside thereformed a white frosty mist. 163 CHAPTER XXXV AN OCTOBER DAY IN THE FOREST F
. Wanderings of a naturalist . -«&^.;_. .-.^ -;. Across the snow-covered tops. ■-»*€■^<«»S?:. ^Ssfc. Spying the OCTOBER DAY IN THE FOREST. Ben MacDhui in September Cairngorms were clear to the tops. In Coire an Lochan ofBraeriach several snow fields of the previous winter stilllingered, and even in one of the westerly corries of Cairn-gorm the snow had not all melted. In the windless air themurmur of the Bennaidh carried far, and with the coming ofnight the stars shone forth, and over the countryside thereformed a white frosty mist. 163 CHAPTER XXXV AN OCTOBER DAY IN THE FOREST FOR days a south-easterly wind, blowing with the forceof half a gale, had brought mist and rain to the low were the hurrying clouds, they almost descendedto the remote stalking-lodge lying near the head of a wind-swept glen and fifteen hundred feet above the level of the sea. Then one morning, when the stalking season had butthree more days to run, the wind commenced to veer. Rainstill fell in torrents, but the shift of the wind from south-eastto west brought, as it almost always does, a li
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