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338 OUR ADVENTURE, IN THE HIGHLANDS,
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LIV.—OUR ADVENTURE 1H THE HIGHLANDS.
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and Our the regiment season was was stat...
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338 Our Adventure, In The Highlands,
338 OUR ADVENTURE , IN THE HIGHLANDS ,
Liv.—Our Adventure 1h The Highlands.
LIV . —OUR ADVENTURE 1 H THE HIGHLANDS .
And Our The Regiment Season Was Was Stat...
and Our the regiment season was was stationed autumn . in Most the prett of our y littl fellows e town were of Perth away
bored shooting . Not , and but we that , the the unfortunate inhabitants remainers and surrounders , were very of Perth much
all were both hosp for itabl their e and annual agreeable tour , and but then thoug they h the had town almost was
full gone of peop away le , they were all strangers , en route for the Highlands . We had walked up and down George Street and John Street
till we knew every stone in the pavement and every name over heart the shop we doors had . ridden We had far the and view near . from over Kinnoul the nei Hill hbouring * by
country ; ; we knew the exact number , of cows on the g North Inch f and were on terms of intimacy with each individually ;
we had , u stood on the bridge at midnight , " when u the moon rose o ' er the cit" we had crossed it at mid-daywhen the sun
streamed on the y river ; ; we had sung choruses on , it in the early of morningwhen water and " Inch" were alike rounded
grey by the wet-blanket , -like mist which covered them ; and we had lounged on it in the evening , when old Phoebus was hiding
face himself in behind a veil the of dazzling distant Gramp dreamy ians haze , and . Very muffling beautiful his joll it y
especial certainly l was when , but the we reality young took cc subs the " preferred form of hunting reality to shooting ideality ,
y , , for balls long , and ; hunting picnics ; was neither of course of the out two of latter the question had come , it our was way not
the season for it , and though it had been , there were no hounds bitter in the bit nei ; g there hbourhood was lots . of And _zt 9 but shooting not — alas ah ! ! for there us . was Only the to
a limited number of our men had peop , le said— _" Come and spend a week or two with me at my shooting box . " And very
much envied were those men by the unfortunates who had not received similar invites .
Charlie Heathcote , Harry Beeching , and I , belonged to the neg of our lected own class we , had and being out of too poor to lanned dream of a little renting tour a moor to be
made hy u , our three , selves . " revenge In the , p presence of the fortunate hills invited to ones climb , we and loudl the y p declared icturesque that to , seek _" give after us , and the heathery we don't
obtained * Kinnoul . It rises Hill with is an a eminence gentle slope near and Perth then , from termina which tes a abruptl fine view y in is a
perpendicul f The North ar cliff and . South Inches are two , public parks , which extend along le of
pas the t left ure gro bank und of , and the blea river ching Tay green ; they . serve the trippui _^ pose promenade ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 338, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/50/
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