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which wheeled about and swam for another point, 

 but its companion struck ground and fell dead to 

 the second barrel The boatmen quickly took the 

 sportsman on board, and ere the first he fired at 

 could gain the shore he shot her through the head. 

 The pair, an old hind and her calf, were the only 

 deer in Torlochan wood, and the marksman being 

 now in no humour to throw away a chance, had 

 hit the hind through the back running, at 130 

 yards, when she took the water, followed by her 

 calf. The latter was fortunately a male, so we had 

 exactly completed our year's lot of three harts and 

 two hinds. 



A CONTRETEMPS. 



I shall conclude these wood-driving remini- 

 scences of Mull by a deer -stalking incident at 

 my next shooting quarter, which, as "a comedy 

 of errors," was quite unique. 



Accompanied by a friend and my second son, we 

 were returning from fishing the high pools of the 

 Falloch, when the hill- watcher met us in hot haste 

 with the welcome news that a couple of harts were 

 feeding in a wild corrie of the Arnan, and he did 



