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    XLVII.—RAMBLES NORTHWARD.

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    i ^ i. Grazed and impressive as the scen...

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    Xlvii.—Rambles Northward.

    XLVII . —RAMBLES NORTHWARD . { Concluded from page 256 . )

    I ^ I. Grazed And Impressive As The Scen...

    _i _^ i _. _Grazed and impressive as the scenery is on _tlie north coast of

    Scot-. land , it pales before the romantic beauty of the west , whither our rambles now lead usvia ScourieAssynt , and Ullapool to Loch

    , , taken Maree , thi a s road route but , following little known 1 the . line Am of ong the * the coast few as travellers faithfull who y as have

    ourselves , and with eyes even more observant , who do you think , oh , reader we found to have preceded us by some months ? No other than

    the Prince Napoleon , the redoubtable Plon-Plon himself . Travelling alone , and , as he thought j incognito , this valiant

    Reargeneral visited every harbour , bay , and creek to the north and west , asking questions innumerableand picking up all the information he

    , could as to safe anchorage , facility of entry , etc ., but , as our " canny " friends had penetrated his incognito , and took care to pass the

    discovery on from point to point , weare inclined to think that this not over-valorous gentleman received such accounts of the dangers and

    difficulties of the coast , that when his illustrious cousin does condescend to the long talked of invasion , the landing will not be

    attempted on those shores . It was a cold drizzling night when Plon-Plon presented himself

    at the little inn at Durin , after the fashion of an ordinary traveller , having driven over from Tongue in the mail dog-cart , and acting up

    to his incognito , the detection of which he never seems to have suspe which cted , made characterises himself at commercial home with travellers an affectation -whose of that mode hearty of ease very

    , entering an hotel implies absolute authority and possession . " I soon knew who he was , " said Mrs . Koss , " hut as he chose not treated him like bodelseand

    to make himself known I everyy , wards though and I gave forwards him his to the dinner "bar in for the what parlor he , wanted he kep , t and coming I let back him

    wait upon himself as much as he liked . _" Next morning a difficulty arose in the matter of shaving . Now Plon-Plon ' s dislike to steel is ,

    it seems , carried so far as to render him incapable of using a razor , and how to get shaved was a puzzle . In this emergency he sent for

    the landlady whom , he would fain have persuaded to shave him herself ; but she declined the honor and despatched a messenger for the

    blacksmith as the only . man in the village likely to accomplish the feat . The man arrived and commenced operations , but whether from

    want of skill or good will on the operator ' s part , or from want of and faith on that of the patient , certain it is that a few

    courage seconds only had elapsed ere the " distinguished foreigner" was heard roaring for Mrs , Koss , whom he conjured to officiate in propria

    person ® . This , however , wa _£ impossible , but the terrified Plon-Plon

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 318, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/30/