162 GLENFALLOCH ROES. 



deserve never to have an opportunity of spoiling 

 one again. 



The condition of roes is far more precarious 

 than that of either red or fallow deer. In some 

 seasons very few good ones are killed at all. 

 Some localities, too, seem much more adapted to 

 fatten them than others. During a lease of three 

 years at Glenfalloch, we killed 31 roe-deer, and of 

 that number 12 were in first-rate condition. The 

 last year of a former lease in Aberdeenshire, I 

 killed 19 roes, and my son 5, but the best of 

 these 24 did not equal the worst of the Glen- 

 falloch dozen. What is stranger still, during the 

 year that we killed most fat ones at Glenfalloch, 

 my brother complained that out of a number 

 killed by them, only 20 miles distant, there was 

 not one really good roe. 



Why the Glenfalloch roes were fatter than 

 those on any of my other rented shootings, I 

 never could discover ; but if even there, and at 

 the height of the season, good ones were so rare, no 

 wonder that the majority of sportsmen and house- 

 keepers have branded roe venison with the ill 

 name that has hanged so many dogs. The 



