. All round sport : with fish, fur, & feather ; adventures on the turf and the road, in the hunting and cricket fields, yachting courses, links, and curling ponds . they could go on tramp. Ive oftenseen them at work in the summer mornings at sunrise, fellingtimber and carrying mud up and down the streams on theirtails; quite different from us, you ken, for we carry our mortaron our heads. Altogether the heads-I-win-tails-you-lose style of workof the beavers in Lord Butes colony interested me very much,and although I had not seen them on duty, I was quite wellcontent with seeing the effects of
. All round sport : with fish, fur, & feather ; adventures on the turf and the road, in the hunting and cricket fields, yachting courses, links, and curling ponds . they could go on tramp. Ive oftenseen them at work in the summer mornings at sunrise, fellingtimber and carrying mud up and down the streams on theirtails; quite different from us, you ken, for we carry our mortaron our heads. Altogether the heads-I-win-tails-you-lose style of workof the beavers in Lord Butes colony interested me very much,and although I had not seen them on duty, I was quite wellcontent with seeing the effects of their operations. That theywould prove exceedingly objectionable on a well-wooded estatewas, however, quite evident, and the lovers of forestry are neverlikely to make pets of them. Getting back to the inn, I sampled the sap of the soil andsome oatcakes and cheese, and an hour afterwards found myselfback at my hotel. A hasty trip to Keans cottage on Loch Fad,where the great King Edmund lived in the delightful companyof the grouse and the black-cock for a full season, midst thebeautiful birch trees, and I was off again to the adjacent islandof Great
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