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Sandy M'Kenzie and his man Johnnie . - Castle Connal.A Highland chief stabbed by a penknife ! A fifty year old badger . - Anecdotes of badgers . - Hooking a fine ferox opposite the Gled's nest . - Johnnie's government grievances .
Sandy M'Kenzie and his man Johnnie . - Castle Connal.A Highland chief stabbed by a penknife ! A fifty year old badger . - Anecdotes of badgers . - Hooking a fine ferox opposite the Gled's nest . - Johnnie's government grievances .
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Poor Sandy Bell had walked twenty - seven miles a day for thirty years of his life , and at his dismissal was fresh as May . He bitterly complained that he lost , first his bread , " by they new - fangled nonsense , " and then his ...
Poor Sandy Bell had walked twenty - seven miles a day for thirty years of his life , and at his dismissal was fresh as May . He bitterly complained that he lost , first his bread , " by they new - fangled nonsense , " and then his ...
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I had already bespoken the services of old Sandy McKenzie , " wha kens whar the big fish lie as weel as ony man on Loch Ow side . " Sandy , being appointed skipper , begged to be allowed to choose his own crew , which consisted of a ...
I had already bespoken the services of old Sandy McKenzie , " wha kens whar the big fish lie as weel as ony man on Loch Ow side . " Sandy , being appointed skipper , begged to be allowed to choose his own crew , which consisted of a ...
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We had intended to troll to the bay of old Castle Connal , eight miles down the loch , built , as Sandy says , by the Danes , but were obliged to defer it till next day . The bay which this castle commands is a famous resort of the ...
We had intended to troll to the bay of old Castle Connal , eight miles down the loch , built , as Sandy says , by the Danes , but were obliged to defer it till next day . The bay which this castle commands is a famous resort of the ...
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I sauntered dreamily along , admiring the views as they unfolded themselves , and had sat for some time on Port Sonachan shore , listening to a chorus of cuckoos , before the measured . stroke of Sandy and Johnny appeared at some ...
I sauntered dreamily along , admiring the views as they unfolded themselves , and had sat for some time on Port Sonachan shore , listening to a chorus of cuckoos , before the measured . stroke of Sandy and Johnny appeared at some ...
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Page i - THE MOOR AND THE LOCH. Containing Minute Instructions in all Highland Sports, with Wanderings over Crag and Correi, Flood and Fell. By JOHN COLQUHOUN, Esq. Third Edition. 8vo, with Illustrations, 12s. 6d. SALMON-CASTS AND STRAY SHOTS: Being Fly-Leaves from the Note-Book of JOHN COLQUHOUN, Esq., Author of * The Moor and the Loch,