Yolande The Story of a Daughter - 1 Author:William Black Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1883 Original Publisher: Macmillan Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where yo... more »u can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V. " O' BYGANE DAYS AND ME." The Master of Lynn was walking along Church Street, Inverness, leisurely smoking his morning cigar, when a small boy from the hotel overtook him, and handed him a letter. He glanced at the handwriting, and saw it was from his sister; so he put it in his pocket without opening it. Then he went on and into Mr. Macleay's shop. This was a favourite lounge of his. For not only was it a valuable museum of natural history -- all kinds of curiosities and rarities being sent thither to be preserved -- but also, to any one with sufficient knowledge, it afforded a very fair report as to what was going on in the different forests. More than that, it was possible for one to form a shrewd guess as to the character of some of the people then wandering about the Highlands, -- the sort of sportsmen, for example, who sentto be stuffed such rare and remarkable birds as gannets, kittiwakes, and skarts, or who wished to have all the honours of a glass-case and a painted background conferred on a three-pound trout. It was not difficult (as he sat on the counter or strolled about) to imagine the simple joy with which these trophies had been secured and carefully packed and sent away for preservation; while, on the other hand, some great stag's head -- a magnificent and solitary prize -- perhaps awoke a touch of envy. The good- natured proprietor of the establishment, busy with his own affairs, let this young man do pretty much what he liked in the place ; and so it was that the Master, having had a look at the latest specimens of the skill of the...« less