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which we devoted to the Glenforsa pheasants, 

 killing the round dozen, besides hares and rabbits. 

 As the wind had continued steady, we felt sure 

 of deer next day, and in walking home were 

 concerting the best mode of driving the covers, 

 when the overseer met us with dejected mien. 

 " The Ugly Buck has bolted after his master to 

 Scalastal," says he. " We cheated him a' day 

 that Dugald was here, but the naasty beast fan' 

 us oot and set after him." To supply the place 

 of the truant we asked a day's driving from the 

 shepherd who owned the old dog already refer- 

 red to, which was at once cheerfully given. 



Maclean and his collie walked up the avenue 

 next morning just such a study as would have 

 charmed the eye and inspired the pencil of our 

 late unrivalled Wilkie. He was a tall, broad- 

 shouldered, handsome young man, with black 

 curly hair streaming under the blue bonnet, a 

 shepherd's crook in his hand, and that peculiar 

 shamble which proved at once that the roads were 

 his detestation, and the hills his delight. His 

 dog, known as the best in Mull, would not have 

 been tolerated among the useless showy creatures 



