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that contains the staircase, round at
the ground level, and higher up changing to
a square form to accommodate small
dwelling rooms, while the stair case passes
into a rounded turret in the re-entering
angle. The castle is, I fancy, an early 17th.
century type - a late castellated form. The
rounded or squared tower reminded me of
Ardvreck on Loch Assynt - One evening
last week I devised a new entertainment
for the children. The forest covers a great
extent of country all around, and through
it one may wander at will, for while I
believe it is occasionally driven in the
winter, it is too rough & thick to shoot through.
In the heart of it, here and there, are large
open spaces where peats have been much
cast in past times, and still are dug, and
to reach these run from different points
old tracks and roads. Furnished with
a compass and a map, both of which
I can use efficiently, one cannot lose one's
way, but to the ordinary wanderer such
an eventually might easily happen.
on the evening in question we set out to learn
a little woodcraft, taking in addition to

our map etc. a pair of field glasses . We struck
deep into the forest beyond the Duack Burn and
after crossing a high road found a peat track
which brought us to a peat bog. Getting over
this by following along the side of a ditch
we came into a part of the forest little ex:
:plored, I fancy, by the summer visitor. En:
:joining absolute silence we stole as quietly as
possible along an old track all alert for
any sign of game, with a rate of marks for
the first view of each quarry, - 10 for a caper-
-caille, 5 a roedeer, 4 a black cock, 3 a
grey hen, and 2 a hanging wasp's nest. Our
exploit was crowned with success for we
saw one caper', 3 roedeer, and some 5 or
6 brace of black-cock. The heather
is just coming into flower, and it grows
more than knee deep through the forest.
The white spikes of Goodiera repens may
be seen thrusting through it in many places.
We are expecting any day the arrival
of 150 German prisoners, who are to be lodged
in a camp near Causer, and employed as
woodcutters. At the front things
are moving steadily in the right direction.
Always gains to the allies and never now
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