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like this it would almost make the enthusiast wish that 

 the old law of death to the poacher, of Henry III. and 

 even later monarchs, should be revived in favour of 

 this beautiful creature. Before Baron Schroder ruled 

 in Glenfeshie, Sir Charles Mordaunt had it for 

 fourteen years, and I can testify to the many splendid 

 trophies from this forest that adorn the walls of 

 Walton Hall, Sir Charles' house in Warwickshire. 

 In a letter to me Sir Charles describes Glenfeshie 

 as "a perfect place for all-round sport," and states 

 that to him it will ever remain " Ille terrarum mihi 

 praeter omnes angulus ridet," which is a pretty use of 

 a quotation that also shows Sir Charles has not 

 forgotten his Horace. 



In this forest Landseer painted many pictures, 

 being especially fond of studying the deerhounds bred 

 by old Malcolm Clark the Fox-hunter. At one period 

 there were two sets of huts in the glen, in one of 

 which, on the Mackintosh portion, Landseer painted a 

 group of deer with a suspicious hind on the plaster 

 above the fireplace; but as the huts came to be 



