CONTENTS xi 



CHAPTER VIII 



EARLY SPORTING DAYS 



PAGES 



Trip to Germany — A quick return — Shooting over Inverewe — 

 My first dog — On the hill— The pointers — Dogs versus 

 badger — Breeding setters — My friend " Fan " — A wonder- 

 ful hunter — Shooting experiences — Increased sporting 

 area — Big bags — A wandering quail — A ptarmigan at sea- 

 level — Late Dr. Warre's best day's sport — Flock of 

 strange grouse — Some curious shots — Swan-shooting 113-127 



CHAPTER IX 



DEER-STALKING 



Our guns — Deer asleep— A monster royal stag — In a corrie — 

 A ten-pointer — A difficult journey — Wounded deer — 

 Gill the lurcher — A " grand beast " — Fox versus roebuck 

 — The poachers — Cave robber — Modern stalkers — Donald 

 the gillie — Drowning the deer - - - 128-141 



CHAPTER X 



DEER-STALKING — Continued. 



A cheap licence — Start for the forest — The shepherd's bothy — 

 Almost unbearable — The two stags — Present to the 

 laird — Ceremony at the big house — An eccentric laird — 

 His ideas about a kilt — My biggest stag — Cornish tenant's 

 disgust — Watson and the eagles — Two and a half brace 

 before breakfast — Vermin-killing — Mystery of the heronry 

 —A handy drug - - - - 142-153 



CHAPTER XI 



THE FIONN LOCH 



Description of Loch — A snake story — Eyrie of white-tailed 

 eagles — Expedition for eggs — The Osprey's Loch — Goose- 

 ander's nest — Extinct birds — A hare drive — Ptarmigan 

 and grouse — Wild cats and otters — My tame otter — 

 Amazing fishing records - - - - 154-168 



