. The birds of Iona & Mull . tillshe gets so exhausted as to be incapable of flying, and so fallsalive into the hands of her young tormentors. A young onetaken from the nest becomes a useful garden scavenger, destroy-ing all kinds of injurious I hope to get some new eggs this season, by setting the boyson the search among the moors over in Mull; but it is not easyto get the people to understand why you want eggs. St John,in his Tour in Sutherland, when inquiring about an eagles nestof an old shepherd, breaks out into a lamentation upon the reserveof the Highlanders, who seem to have
. The birds of Iona & Mull . tillshe gets so exhausted as to be incapable of flying, and so fallsalive into the hands of her young tormentors. A young onetaken from the nest becomes a useful garden scavenger, destroy-ing all kinds of injurious I hope to get some new eggs this season, by setting the boyson the search among the moors over in Mull; but it is not easyto get the people to understand why you want eggs. St John,in his Tour in Sutherland, when inquiring about an eagles nestof an old shepherd, breaks out into a lamentation upon the reserveof the Highlanders, who seem to have a suspicious dislike to giv-ing information. Alittle snecshin, ora few inchesof tobacco,at oncegoes to theheart of the oldmountaineer; but it mustbe given in the right way,not as you would throw abeggar a halfpenny, butwith such a remark as Maybe youre outof tobacco to-day, , ._ _ Donald, or - Gim^mJtM (>^ Try this, Sandy, and tell me if its good or no. The gentle1 Vide Vertebrate Fauna of the Outer Hebrides, p. 70.— 00 THE BIRDS OF IONA AND MULL. weed is the great mollifier among the wildest nations : the Aral)exchanges pipes on meeting his friend, as an assurance of hisgood faith, and the American chiefs dispel the impending war-cloud by a few whirls from the pacific calumet. Had tobaccobeen discovered in the Middle Ages, I will answer for it thatthose warlike barons would have stopped at home and smokedtheir pipes upon their castle walls, instead of galloping about thecountry cutting peoples throats. I am on the eve of starting on a trip to the north-westextremity of Mull, where there is a loch famous for Widgeon andother Ducks. I shall take a boat and one hand, touching, if it ispossible, at Staffa on the way, for Geese abound there. I wish Icould have the pleasure of your company: I have plenty offeathered society indeed, but I would rather, for a companion,have one of Hatos two-legged animals without feathers! Thetime of my absence will depend entirely upon the w
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