34 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



right well how much the situation and lie of a forest 

 have to do with the well-being of deer. Wherever 

 the sea- shore is favourable the Jura deer, like horses 

 and sheep, eat a great deal of seaweed, and likewise 

 they devour all horns and bones of dead deer pretty 

 quickly, and are not even at all particular how soon 

 they begin on them, for Mr. Evans once found a large 

 piece of deer's hide the size of a pocket handkerchief 

 chewed full of holes in the stomach of a stag he 

 shot. Twice also has he seen stags with large pieces 

 of skin and leg-bones entangled in their horns, and 

 he relates how one of these bone-carriers was the 

 terror of his friends, for when he trotted or galloped the 

 leg-bone rattled with a great noise against his horns ; 

 thus one day, on getting wind of Mr. Evans and his 

 stalker, this stag in dashing off set several others 

 on the run : these were urged to top speed by the 

 music " bones " played behind them, the result 

 being a desperate, but ludicrous, race, till at length 

 hunter and hunted disappeared over the sky line. 

 On the Inner beat, in 1888, a fine stag was found dead 



