Superstition amongst the People--Difficulty of dealing with it--Examples of Superstitions still prevalent in the Highlands--Cock-crowing at untimely hours--Itching of the Nose--Ringing in the Ears--The "Dead-Bell"--Sir Walter Scott--Hogg--Mickle, 313 CHAPTER LI. Welcome Rain in May--Plague of Mice in Upper Teviotdale--Arvicola Agrestis--Field-Mice in Ardgour--How exterminated--A Singing Mouse--Farmers' Mistakes--Mackenzie the Bird-catcher, 319 CHAPTER LII. Tourist Grumblers; how to deal with them--Sea Fishing--Superstition about a Gull--Josephus--Story of Mosollam and the Augur, 327 CHAPTER LIII. Heat in Mid-August--Early Planting and Sowing--Over-ripening of Crops--Medusæ--Stinging Jelly-Fish--The amount of solid matter in Jelly-Fish, 334 CHAPTER LIV. Approach of Winter--Contentedness of the People--Poets and Wild-Bird Song--Differences in the Colouring and Markings of Birds' Eggs--Late Nest-building--Anecdote of Provost Robertson of Dingwall, Mr. Gladstone's Grandfather, 341 CHAPTER LV. Spring--Hood's Parody of Thomson's Invocation--The excellence of Nettle-Top Soup--Cock-crowing--Birds'-nesting--Professor Geikie--Curious Story of an old Pipe-Tune, 348 CHAPTER LVI. Rain in Lochaber--An Apple Tree in bloom by Candle-light--Mackenzie the Bird-catcher--A Badenoch "Wise Woman" spitting in a Child's Face to preserve it from the Fairies, 355 CHAPTER LVII. Caught in a Squall on Loch Leven--Potatoes and Herrings: How to cook them--A day in Glen Nevis--A visit to Uaimh Shomhairle, or Samuel's Cave--The Cave-Men, 361 CHAPTER LVIII. Showers in Harvest Time--Magnificent Sunset--Night sometimes seeming not to descend but to ascend--Death of M. Leverrier--The Discovery of Neptune--Pigeon cooing at Midnight--The Owl at Noon--Cage-Birds singing at Night, 370 CHAPTER LIX. October Storms--Cablegram Predictions--Indications of coming Storms--Geordie Braid, the St. Andrews and Newport Coach-driver--The Naturalist in Winter--Drowned Hedgehogs: Spines become soft and gelatinous--Lophius Piscatorius--Disproportion between head and body in the Devil-Fish a puzzle--An Itinerant Fiddler, 379 CHAPTER LX. A Trip to Glasgow--Kelvin Grove Museum--Highland Association--A run to Rothesay--Rothesay Aquarium, 387 CHAPTER LXI. Overland from Ballachulish to Oban on a "Pet Day" in February--Story of Clach Ruric--Castle Stalker: an old Stronghold of the Stewarts of Appin--James IV.--Charles II.--Magpies--Dun-Mac-Uisneachan, 394 CHAPTER LXII.