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wind may blow or Clarke may say." Three days later 

 Mr. Gretton did have his drive, for on that same 

 day I was shooting grouse at Corrour, on the sheep 

 ground of Ben Alder glen, when suddenly in many 

 places in the sky-line there appeared large herds of 

 trotting, frightened, galloping deer ; I think from five 

 to seven hundred beasts of all sorts must have been 

 put on to our ground, while later I heard Mr. Gretton 

 had insisted on his drive in spite of a bad wind and 

 all the entreaties of Edward Clarke, the then head 

 forester. Poor Clarke ! for nearly forty years he 

 had been in Ben Alder, till in the winter of 1888 he 

 met with his death from an accident in the forest he 

 was so devoted to ; for when out after hinds with his 

 son in the winter snows on the neaily precipitous 

 sides of Ben Alder, as bad fate would have it, they 

 sat down side by side on some snow-covered heather, 

 and the next second they were both rolling headlong 

 down the hill in the midst of a small avalanche. The 

 son escaped with a severe bruising and a broken 

 leg, which caused his progress in search of help 



