Posted by Mike Field on August 11, 2002 at 09:44:28 from 203.26.98.6 user mikefield.
In Reply to: Re: Scottish wild life. posted by andy bolger on August 10, 2002 at 18:56:36:
Compton Mackenzie, writing in idyllic mood about the evening of Midsummer's Day in the Scottish highlands --
",,,,the rosy flush faded from the summit of Ben Quilt, which now darkened the dull silver of the loch. A great waning moon two days past the full appeared over the high tops between Kilwhillie and Glenbogle. The windows of the drawing-room were wide open to the long, sad, sweet gloaming of the longest day. The quiet,,,, was broken only by the occasional sound of a smack as somebody hoped he had given the midges a lesson."