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placed. Leaving the keeper with dogs and tele- 

 scope on the top of the mound, the shooters 

 mapped out so wide a flank movement as to 

 prevent the possibility of being either seen or 

 winded by the quarry, now at last careless and 

 secure. 



The various eccentric turns and doubles of our 

 game had again placed us close to the spot where 

 we first found them at noon, and with so fair a 

 prospect of coming to close quarters at the end 

 of the day, no wonder that the fourth unsociable 

 buck was quite overlooked. Scarcely had we 

 quitted the keeper and dived for concealment 

 among the rugged peaks and scaurs of the moun- 

 tain face, when " the solitary " burst from his lair 

 among the whins right athwart our course, but 

 scarcely had he got into his stride when a shot 

 from my son's gun paralysed the fleet limbs that 

 had almost saved him, and, rolling over the crag, 

 he lay powerless at its foot. 



Our first act was to cast an eye on the look- 

 out. There he was, steady as the rock he leaned 

 on, neither the shot nor the fall of the roe having 

 slackened for an instant his attention from the 



