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MEMORABLE CAMPS 155tints and the colouring of the landscape, steepedin sunshine, was magnificent. Bracken, weconcluded, would be the very makingof Dalwhinnie,of Loch Shin, of other dreary places inthe North, which fail of their effect by theirsingle allegiance to the heather. . . .But there is no end to my memorable camps,and somethingI must say of the special virtuesof stackyards.It was in the last of our journeysthat we came to recognize that had the institutionof the stackyard been invented for the benefit ofthe caravanner it could hardly have been betterdone. For a stackyardis bound to be easilyaccessible with a good road in and a wide gate.It isalways hard in the surface and you have nofear of sinking. It is near the steading and thusmost handy for supplies, and yet it is quiet andsecluded enough. Stacks are themselves delightfulneighbours, especially the bonny roundstacks of Southern Scotland, and often they forman alluring pattern, pleasant shapes and combinations,open spaces and narrow thoroughfares.when we are caravanning, we are in someFor if,measure as children who are playing at house onthe grandscale and of course we are : that ispart of the secret fascination it follows that thegameis much enriched if the house be set in