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goCARAVAN DAYSBase at Inverness, to which we repeatedly returned.We found a snug and comfortable littlefarm, two or three miles out on the Perth road,where the van rested upon the grassy roadwayof a disused avenue among overarching beeches.There was an excellent pump at hand :first-classthere wasgrazing for the horses in the paddockwhere we stood : there was wealth of dog-roses :and in his cottage not a hundred yards awaydwelt Peter the ploughman, who took the wholeestablishment under his wing.On the way back in that first summer we turnedEast along the coast, gathering up a county a dayat the outset for the new enterprise startedwith great dash and impetus and camping insuccession in Nairn, Elgin, Banff and Aberdeen.At Montrose we turned inland and travelledWest to the Trossachs, adding Kincardine andForfar to our bag. Then we turned South andhome through Stirling.In May and June, 1913, we went right up theheart of Scotland, crossing by the Ferryat theForth Bridge, and made a great march acrossRoss-shire to the West Coast, returning to Inverness,where we left the van for some weeks.Thistour took in Midlothian, Linlithgow, Fife andKinross. In the autumn of that year we set out