64 PEEK -DRIVING IN MULL. 



look up than down hill. In this instance the 

 watcher was clearly for the low approach, as he 

 feared our deerhound might scare the sheep, scat- 

 tered thickly over the heights. Notwithstanding, 

 I decided to risk it, and by stalking the sheep and 

 screening the dog among us, we at last got safely 

 beyond them. The harts were now close at hand ; 

 so leaving the watcher with Friday on the leash, 

 we were soon at the back of the knoll, where we 

 had seen them lying. I directed my son to keep 

 about eighty yards above me, lest they might have 

 risen, and separated, but not to show himself until 

 I had fired. 



On looking through a tuft of heather, I saw 

 the deer on their legs fine side chances the 

 largest about 50, and the other fully 100 yards 

 off. I fired a double shot ; and my son called 

 down, "You've done for them both." The near 

 one ran a short way and fell dead, but the other, 

 dropping on its knees, rolled over the opposite 

 side of the height, on the crest of which it was 

 standing, and limped down the hill until close to 

 my son, where it halted, staring at him within 

 pistol-range. At this moment, a third hart gal- 



