56 DEER -DRIVING IN MULL. 



that generally take first prizes at dog exhibitions, 

 for it required a thorough sportsman to appre- 

 ciate his points. Low in size and stiff in gait, 

 his limbs slightly curved, and his hair wiry at a 

 passing glance most people would have called 

 him ugly; but the broad chest, the round firm 

 foot, the breadth of the head between the ears, 

 and the exceeding intelligence and mildness of 

 the eye, would soon have arrested the attention 

 of a real judge of canine merit to the exclusion 

 of all other fanciful points of useless beauty. 



Wishing to take full service out of the man and 

 his dog, we set him to the large rough woods of 

 Torlochan and Garrochree first, reserving "the 

 Knock" for the evening, if we had time. After 

 giving strict injunctions to the grieve not to allow 

 his dogs to break into Garrochree again, I chose 

 the lowest pass, where the hind eluded us before. 

 The chance is generally a long-running one, but 

 open and broadside. The dogs found at once, and 

 stuck to their game beautifully. Several times 

 the deer came close to my pass, then seemed to 

 lose heart when facing the open, and returned to 

 the shelter of Torlochan. There was a larch plan-. 



