Warm showery Summer disagreeable for the Tourist, but pastorally and agriculturally favourable--Xiphias Gladius, or Sword-Fish, cast ashore during a Mid-summer Gale--Garibaldi dining on Potatoes and Sword-Fish steaks at Caprera--The General's Drink--Medicinal virtues of an Onion--Nettle Broth--Translation of a New Zealand Maori Song, 233 CHAPTER XXXIX. Mountains--The Lochaber Axe, Ancient and Modern, 238 CHAPTER XL. Sea-Fowl--Weather Prognostics--Goosander (Mergus Merganser, Linn.)--Gales of Wind--January Primroses--Lachlan Gorach, the Mull "Natural"--A Dancing Rhyme, 244 CHAPTER XLI. Plague of Thistles in Australia and New Zealand--How to deal with them--Cnicus Acaulis, Great Milk Thistle, or Stemless Thistle--Fierce Fight between two Seals, "Nelson" and "Villeneuve," 250 CHAPTER XLII. Wounds from Stags' Antlers exceedingly dangerous--The old Fingalian Ballads--Number of Dogs kept for the Chase--Dr. Smith's "Ancient Lays" of modern manufacture--The Spotted Crake (Crex Prozana) at Inverness--Its Habits, 258 CHAPTER XLIII. Whelks and Periwinkles--An Ossianic Reading--The Sea-shore after a Storm--The Rejectamenta of the deep--An amusing Story of a Shore-Searcher--Severity of Winter--Wild-Birds' Levee--Woodcock--Snipe--Blue Jay, 264 CHAPTER XLIV. A "Blessed Thaw" after a Severe Frost--Longevity in Lochaber--A ready "Saline draught"--A probatum est Recipe for Catarrh and Colds--Egg-shell Superstition--Curious old Gaelic Poem, 272 CHAPTER XLV. "Albert," a famous Labrador Dog--As a Water Dog--His intelligence--Takes to Sheep-Stealing--Death! 278 CHAPTER XLVI. An old Fingalian Hero--His keenness of Sight and sharpness of Ear--Foresters and Keepers--Foxhunters--Donald MacDonald--His Dogs--Sandy MacArthur the Mole-catcher, 286 CHAPTER XLVII. Autumnal Night--Meteors--The Spanish Mackerel--Professor Blackie's Translations from the Gaelic--The "Translations" of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, 293 CHAPTER XLVIII. Crops--Potato Slug--Fern Slug--Brackens: How thoroughly to extirpate them--The Merlin, Falcon, and Tringa, 299 CHAPTER XLIX. The Hedgehog an Egg and Bird Eater?--Bird-catching--"Old Cowie"--Mackenzie--Lanius Excubitor--The Butcher-Bird or Shrike--Tea-Drinking and Sobriety, 305 CHAPTER L.