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and had with her a poor and sickly calf, which did not 

 long survive its mother. As she was put down as five 

 years old when first observed, she must have been 

 twenty-six or twenty-seven years old at the time 

 of her death, but in spite of her advanced years 

 she had a perfect set of teeth. Mr. Evans' theory 

 of the age of deer does not at all agree with Mr. 

 Scrope's assertion that "stags live to 150 and even 

 1 80 years ; " and in support of his theory Scrope 

 quotes the case of Captain Macdonald of Tulloch in 

 Lochaber, who dying at the age of eighty-six knew 

 the white hind of Loch Treig for the last fifty years 

 of his life, while his father knew her for an equal time, 

 and his grandfather knew her for sixty years of his 

 time, which seems to make this white lady to be 160 

 years old. In further support of his belief Mr. Scrope 

 also quotes the old Highland saying as if he fully 

 believed in it, that 



" Thrice the age of a dog is that of a horse, 

 Thrice the age of a horse is that of a man, 

 Thrice the age of a man is that of a deer, 



