You might expect that in times of depression there might
be a return to places where life is free and livelihood is earned by vigour of body and the skill of the hunter ; that there would be sonic return to the securing of such " primary products "- blessed phrase—as fish and deer, that what makes the rich man's pleasure should he not unwillingly accepted as the poor man's necessity. How splendid the scene, how full of zest the nature of the life ! If the winter is too stark for con- tinuous residence, why should not man have facility to do what is done for the younger sheep which spend summer on the islands and return to the mainland for the winter months ? At the moment even the rich man deserts the Paradise : the heather is left unburnt ; the grouse will stand on the silent butts and the red deer begin to forget that quality of watchful shyness which is almost their second nature.
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