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here Lochiel with two attendants was also hidden, 

 and the Prince was for some time in danger of 

 meeting his death at the hands of his devoted 

 adherent, for they were at first taken for foes, and 

 Lochiel being wounded in the ankle, resolving to sell 

 his life dearly, the muskets of the bothy party were 

 actually levelled at the prince and his friends before the 

 mistake was happily found out. No trace of this bothy 

 now exists on Mealaneach, and many a good stag 

 has been killed on this hill since those days. It is 

 very stony, rocky, broken ground, where, if a solitary 

 stag chanced to be lying down, only very good and 

 sharp eyes could detect him. It was on this hill on 

 one Sunday in August, when taking a stroll with Mr. 

 Lucy, that we both saw the best head either of us had 

 ever seen on a living stag. We each had our glasses 

 with us and got within a hundred yards of him, but 

 he passed on to Corriecregach without being aware 

 of the two pairs of envious eyes fixed on him, or 

 the murmured expressions of our bad luck in not 

 being able to follow him up then and there. Next 



