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fine average weight of 1 5 stone clean. On the walls of 

 Glenquoich is displayed as fine a collection of modern 

 horns as can be seen in all Scotland, some distin- 

 guished for their great span, others for their uncommon 

 massiveness, and again there are those with exception- 

 ally long and graceful points. Here hang royals 

 in plenty, a fair lot of fourteen-pointers, a few of 

 sixteen, and one — the king of the whole collection — 

 has twenty tines. This last-mentioned head Lord 

 Burton laid low in 1893, m a somewhat curious way. 

 Early in that season, and before stalking had fully 

 commenced, he and a party were crossing the hills 

 from Glenquoich to Loch Nevis, when coming suddenly 

 on a company of stags, and seeing that there was 

 no way of getting round them, or of approaching 

 nearer without abandoning the trip to Loch Nevis, 

 Lord Burton, who had his rifle with him, determined 

 to try a long shot at fully three hundred yards, and 

 dropped the stag dead, whereupon a gillie was sent 

 off to do the gralloch, while the party resuming their 

 route, it was not till he arrived home that Lord Burton 



