DEER -DRIVING IN MULL. 35 



the Glenforsa allowance. A like number of hinds 

 on Scalastal, but they were not so strict about the 

 harts. These restrictions seldom annoy the man 

 who kills his full complement, but they are most 

 disgusting to a party who, at the close of a season, 

 are far below the figure it was thus plainly inti- 

 mated they were expected to slay. My predecessor, 

 although assisted by his keeper and other guns, did 

 not kill one deer among them the whole season. I 

 also knew a party in the north, limited to seventy- 

 five harts, end the season with fifteen, and in the 

 shooting of this small lot they were aided by the 

 resident foresters. 



The first year of my Glenforsa lease I had only 

 a few days at its deer. Our first stag was killed 

 by my son when I was in England. I had 

 charged him not to disturb the Glenforsa deer 

 until my return, and he had kept strictly to small 

 game at Scalastal. Two days before I was expect- 

 ed in Mull he drove over to Glenforsa House, with 

 my Scalastal farm overseer, to prepare for our 

 hunt. On the low ground along the banks of 

 Loch-na-Gaul, with the river Knock flowing 

 through it, is a detached strip of plantation 



