If a lad be a genius, you may trust him to find
some original means for developing his manly energies, whether in
art, agriculture, science, or travels, discovery, and commerce. But
if he be not, as there are a thousand chances to one he will not be,
then whatever you teach him, let the two first things be, as they
were with the old Persians, "To speak the truth, and to draw the
bow."'
By this time we had reached the stream, just clearing from the last
night's showers. A long transparent amber shallow, dimpled with
fleeting silver rings by rising trout; a low cascade of green-veined
snow; a deep dark pool of swirling orange-brown, walled in with
heathery rocks, and paved with sandstone slabs and boulders,
distorted by the changing refractions of the eddies,--sight delicious
to the angler.
I commenced my sport at once, while Claude wandered up the glen to
sketch a knoll of crags, on which a half-wild moorland pony, the only
living thing in sight, stood staring and snuffing at the intruder,
his long mane and tail streaming out wildly against the sky.
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