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killed in Jura during the last ten years, for that is 

 not at all the case, albeit certain favoured ones have 

 been spared. Mr. Evans states that he had a three- 

 year-old very tame six-pointer stag, the grandson 

 of a Ross-shire hind, and as he had one ear cut off 

 to render him bullet proof, there can be no possible 

 doubt as to his identity. This stag passed two years 

 as a knobber instead of one, and then threw out 

 six points the next year, which is a somewhat 

 awkward fact for the cock-sure division of observers. 

 Mr. Evans also possesses a fossil stag antler, dug 

 up in Jura gravel, which clearly demonstrates that 

 the Jura red deer are pre-historic. To improve 

 the breed, deer have been introduced from Athol, 

 Black Mount and Kildermorie Forests, and how 

 they have increased since 1844 mav be imagined, 

 when in that year it is a fact that Mr. Campbell's 

 forester searched from Ardfin to Screeb, a distance 

 of eight miles, before he could find a shootable 

 stag for the Duke of Argyll's wedding, while the 

 forester of that date declared there were not sixty stags 



