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is still often spoken of in the district : — Captain Ross 

 and Clark had followed a herd of deer on to Cairn 

 Toul, where they put them into a precipitous hollow 

 above Lochan Uaine, from which they could only make 

 good their escape by ascending the steep face very 

 slowly. As the stags came into shot, they fell one by 

 one, until five had bitten the dust, when the firing was 

 brought to a standstill, because, in the heat and hurry 

 of loading, a bullet was rammed down the rifle barrel 

 before the powder had been put in. On examining 

 the slain, Captain Ross was so pleased with one of 

 them that he turned to Clark, saying, " I would 

 give twenty pounds to see this stag taken home 

 whole." Clark replied that it should not cost the 

 Captain that sum, so, bending down, with the help 

 of his master the big stag was hoisted on to his 

 shoulders, which he then carried to such a place as a 

 pony could come to, when the stag was put in the 

 saddle, eventually to be laid out later in the presence 

 of the Duchess of Bedford, on the green in front 

 of the Doune House, at Rothiemurcus. This deer 



