128 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



The heads were unusually stout, wild, rough and 

 black, for before Mamore was entirely wired in by 

 the late Mr. Thistlethwaite, the hinds of Corrour 

 found mates from there, from the Black Mount, from 

 Ben Alder and Arderikie, so that no forest could 

 possibly be better placed for incessant change of 

 blood, and the " hind ground " of Corrour was ever 

 doing good service as a nursery to the young 

 stags of all those adjoining forests. In the rutting 

 season so incessantly continuous was the coming to 

 and fro of stags that Allan MacCallum, the head 

 stalker, who during the season lived chiefly at Corrour 

 Lodge, ever kept an early look out over "the flat" 

 of Corrour, across which the Black Mount deer were 

 accustomed to travel, and more than once Allan 

 was in time to arouse his master and get him into 

 the pass leading to Corrie Craegacht for which the 

 deer usually made, but as on these occasions Mr. 

 Lucy, forced into a hasty toilet, merely pulled on his 

 knickerbockers and hurried a covert coat over his 

 nightshirt, while thrusting his stockingless feet into 



